But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

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.

Find the right balance in life. Man is body... mind... spirit. Give the right amount of attention to each.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Most people forget that Danny Biasone was the Wilbur Wright of basketball. Because he invented the 24-second clock, the game took off. Yet he was a man who never played the game.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.

If I loved a guy as much as I love my dog, the guy would be in serious trouble because I'm all over that dog, all of the time.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

I think I was about nine years old when I got my first job.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.