I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

The subject of Citizenfour, Edward Snowden, could not be here for some treason.

Thus drivers inching southward will see the phalanx of birds heading west as one spontaneous gesture.

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

My job is writing for people to enjoy and then writing about a broader and a deeper world.