You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.

I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.

If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!

Don't use yesterday's state of mind, to make today's decision.

There are always two sides to a story.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

I don't say that I don't believe in God because that implies that there is a God for me not to believe in.

I don't like talking about 'solutions.' I prefer talking about intelligent responses.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

We are here for God's designs, not for our own

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.