Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.