I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

A lot of guns there's no need for civilians to own those those are for military