I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play

Dedicate your life to solitude and mortify your members which are upon the earth.

Destiny isn't a path any cat follows blindly. It is always a matter of choice, and sometimes the heart speaks loudest. Listen to your heart, because that's where your true destiny lies.

What we invent, we become

We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give.

It's been amazing to watch, because for Thor, which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]

I'm gonna have nightmares about kids eating free.

If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.

An actor works with their soul and their thought