Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

The guitar poured out its soul, its history, its dreams, its pain, its victories, its secrets. The guitar’s strings purred with blues and ended with a haunting solitary song with no lyrics.

The guitar breathed. It inhaled and exhaled, and music filled the shop as the instrument picked the heartbreak of generations.

A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.

The place cast a spell on me, a lovely spell that seduced me one one breath at a time.

When you scratch these guitars, they bleed.

There’s secrets hiding inside this six-string just waitin’ for somebody to find ‘em and turn ‘em into music.

As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music.

A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back.

There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them, watching how Mom and Dad use them as weapons.

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

I'm very good at getting up in the morning - so much of my life has been spent on film sets where we start at the crack of dawn.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book?

People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.