Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.
We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.
Somehow it helps just to take something that’s internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.
I think it surprises a lot of people that I’m still around, you know, still – that I’m not pushing up daisies, as they say.
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don’t see the music world as a competitive sport.
I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I’ll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.
If I were to try to identify a turning point I’d say that was it – getting clean.
I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar – a real nice one – in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.
I don’t know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
If you feel like singing along, don’t.
A concert is always like a feast day to me.
People have used my songs and guitar style to teach guitar for a long time.
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