I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

Practice like the Devil.

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

Light another’s path and the universe will light your own.

For success, focus on your goal, not an obstacle.

Your wisest moments will be those when you say yes to God.

You love life because life's all there is.

It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

Your thoughts are as free as any bird

God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.

I never play the victim, I’d rather be a stalker.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.