I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

The light of a great man shines for generations to come.

When it comes to 'Glee, ' I feel like I've been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith...So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place.

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.

That old question about whether, as a woman, you can be funny and attractive at the same time. Argh! I hate that question. Of course you can.

The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the reader feels in reading it.

I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.