I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

There is no 'I' in team but there is in win.

What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect.

Im not upset that you lied to me Im upset that from now on I cant believe you.

To go to war, you must always think of, can you win?

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I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn't a rule about this. But there's a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.

Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

I enjoy what I'm doing at the moment and try not to think too much about the future.

I find it exhausting to administer a magazine without an office or paid staff.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

They can because they think they can.

Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.