It's amazing what some people read into 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.

I need you. Right now. Let me love you right here, please.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.

Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.

Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.