My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
Now is the only thing that exists.
It’s the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it’s high time you joined in the dance.
I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
I choose to express myself.
There’s laws that we must live by, and they’re not the laws of man.
Life isn’t all that sad. I’m a happy person.
The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.
I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.
I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.
I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.
I fell in love with Nashville. I got lots of work.
I don’t really pay enough attention to what other people are doing.
I do what I believe in. I do good work, and the people who appreciate it, fine, and those who don’t, fine, that’s good.
I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.
Getting the best response from people is how I base my success.
I feel it right down in my stomach when I’m in touch with something. I don’t know what it is.
For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.
Be On Your Way is one of the favorite songs I’ve ever written. What a terribly sad song, but what a beautiful melody.
Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.
Storybook endings never appear. They’re just ‘someone’s’ way of leading us here.