Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Being protective is important.

Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within.

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

I want a woman that wants me to take care of myself because truly, that tells a lot about you. And if you don't take care of yourself how can you take care of a woman? How can you take care of kids?

A man's bread and butter is only insured when he works for it.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

We will instead have to measure our economy by the health of the ecosystems and human communities where we do our work.