If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.