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.

When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.

I was my own teacher and pupil, in a comradeship so firm and persevering that the most trying incidents of my life served only to strengthen the union.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.