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

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

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

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

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.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

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