If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

You shape your own destiny.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

Don't react to any angry actions, words and behaviours. Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.

Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

North Dakota is a great state. Everybody is real supportive up there. I couldn't ask for a better place to call home.