You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Pretty much every time I try something different or do something in front of a live audience, I truly think they might throw peanuts at me.

what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.

A harmless necessary cat.