You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

I'm so glad I found Maren to work with. She has the most perfect voice. She has absolutely perfect intonation and control.

You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.