"I drive every day. I like to gamble."

"I watched my daddy play that guitar, and whenever I could, I would pick it up and strum on it."

"I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there."

"The delta blues is a low-down, dirty shame blues. It's a sad, big wide sound, something to make you think about people who are dead or the women who left you."

"In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth."

"Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."

"Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them."

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."