You have to be yourself otherwise people won't know who you are.

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

And I'd like to leave quite a few friends behind and I hope I will. Other than that, I don't want nobody putting me on a pedestal when I leave here. I'm just one of the people ... just me.

I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

Practice like the Devil.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.

There either is a god or there is not

Never give up on your dreams! When you’re good at something, and there’s love in what you do, passion will always bring success.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour.

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.