There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.

I never use that word, retire.

A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's going to stop cancer or muscular dystrophy or anything, but I like to feel that my time and talent is always there for the people that need it. When someone do say something negative, most times I think about it, but it don't bother me that much.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.