Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

Practice like the Devil.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music