I Can't Afford No Liquor, All I

I Don’t Like To Feel That I Owe Anything. I Like To Feel That I Pay My Own Way, No Free Lunch.

I Always Liked The Steel Guitar. I Also Love The Guys That Play The Bottleneck. But I Could Never Do It; I Never Made It Do What I Want. So Every Time I Would Pick Up The Guitar, I'd Shake My Hand And Trill It A Bit. For Some Strange Reason My Ears Would Say To Me That Sounds Similar To What Those Guys Were Doing. I Can't Pick Up The Guitar Now Without Doing It. So That's How I Got Into Making My Sound. It Was Nothing Pretty. Just Trying To Please Myself. I Heard That Sound.

I Think Ive Done The Best I Could Have Done. But I Keep Wanting To Play Better, Go Further. There Are So Many Sounds I Still Want To Make, So Many Things I Havent Yet Done. When I Was Younger I Thought Maybe Id Reached That Peak. But Im 86 Now, And If I Make It Through To Next Month, Ill Be 87. And Now I Know It Can Never Be Perfect, It Can Never Be Exactly What It Should Be, So You Got To Keep Going Further, Getting Better.

I Did Several Shows With Jimi Hendrix, That's When I Got To Know Him Better, I Knew Of Him, I Met Him [when He Was Playing] With Little Richard... And He Was Kind Of Quiet, Shy, He Didn't Open Up Too Much, But There Were Questions As We All Ask Each Other. You Know, "how Do You Do This" And "why Do You Do That..." We Had Very Small Discussions On Things Like That. And He Was Very Polite, I Thought [he Was] A Very Nice Guy.

I Don't Like Anybody To Be Angry With Me. I'd Rather Have Friends.