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

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.

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

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

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

We are what we believe we are!

It is so amazing that this mighty world changes with us when we change.

Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.

Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.

...everyone goes home in the end.

I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people.

As someone who grew up there, I say: The Chechen Republic must remain part of Russia. Everything else is negotiable.