When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

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

My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

What goes around, comes around.