Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some day I'm gonna be gone and people will be listening to my songs and conjuring me up. In order for that to happen, you gotta put something of yourself in it.
I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so.
My guitar was a loyal person to me.
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.
When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'
I'm coming into places with some people who just want to hear what I did before, with some people who want to hear me with a band, but I am just at the moment sticking to my guns and saying, 'You know what? I want you just to hear this for a minute. I want it to be in the context of me and a guitar.'
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
If somebody wants to sing my songs after I'm gone, nobody will be happier than my dead body.