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

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.

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.

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

His experience was that Justice was rarely as just as it ought to be. The others agreed.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results.

I don't care much about success or anything like that. I've only ever wanted life to be an adventure.

You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.

The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.