Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.

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.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combinedwith the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity.

You have to invent life.

People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I may be a little old-fashioned, but I actually believe that if you live and work in our house and you work on our payroll and you take oaths, then integrity matters in elections.

While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.