I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest.

This is a business, and I'll deal with it when it comes. If it comes, it comes.

I often say that eggs and sugar should be beaten until they thicken and pale and sometimes, when there are lots of yolks, that's lemon colored.

Don't let your mind stop you from having a good time.

Enthusiasm brushes off upon those with whom you come in contact.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

I learned a lot, investigative methodology - wise, from litigators - watching their process.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

When you want your body to perform at a high level, it's important to make sure you are giving your body quality nutrients.

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.