Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.

The word 'retirement' is not in my vocabulary right now.

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music.

Marry somebody you love. That's the whole thing. And continue to love them.

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.

If I can't take Jesus Christ with me, I don't want to go.

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.