And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

So, ” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.''But guns make it so much easier. Shall we go?

Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.

The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

Pain of love lasts a lifetime.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.