The sound has grown and sweetened over the years as well, and you can hear it on many of my recordings and, most likely, will see and hear me playing it if you come to a live show.

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.

Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Your main target should be to find and develop your own unique individuality and not let your focus be sidetracked and drift to external things

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.

Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

One day, tens of millions of years from now, someone will find me rusted into the mud of a world they have never seen, and when they crumble me between their fingers, it will be you they find.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.