They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

It is legal because I wish it.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it.

A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

I think if you see that no one is going to laugh at you for it, I think the concept of living nicely will be infectious. I believe there is room for the absence of cynicism.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.