The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.