If you're able to enjoy something, to devote your life to it or a reasonable amount of time and energy, it will work out for you.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.

every mind is at least as heavy as mine

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.

In my own musical existence I don't feel that being a guitar player is like the best thing on earth to be. I would rather be a balanced musician. Playing in a group, I'm tending to think more about the music and less about the guitar. That's just me getting older. I'm not interested in being a virtuoso guitar player or anything like that.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.