The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

I like the idea of having an old Gibson [guitar], but I don't have one. The Gibson has a different quality, but it's almost like you need both.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?