I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

This is a world of action and not for moping and droning in.

I don't have to be safe to feel safe, I always feel safe at my core.

This bank-note world.

To attract the things we love we must transmit love, and those things will appear immediately.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.

I am a soldier and I worked for the kaiser, under Ebert, Hindenburg, and Hitler, all the same way, for the past 44 years.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.