My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

There is no song to your singing.

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

I remember in my early 20s when I felt I couldn't live past 30. I was learning how to write. I had a lot of hard work ahead of me.

What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.