When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

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.

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.

There are endless ways to thank the people who have contributed to your life. Dole out thanks, and your life will bloom.

Peace is not only the goal, it is the game itself.

In the last decade our attention span has dropped from 13 seconds to 8. To put that in comparison a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. Don't be a goldfish.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

The idea that trials are a search for the truth is just a myth. Trials are a search for that which the jury will believe is the truth.

I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

They tell me that all men are equal in God's eyes, this player (Messi) makes you seriously think about those words.

Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat

I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind.

Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control.