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

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 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.

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.

Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.

When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst.

Oh, but I like my geese. Like cats, they can't be told what to do, and like dogs, they're loyal, and like people, they talk every chance they get.

Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.

I don't think special attention should be given to an actor or a singer or a baseball player or a soccer player more than anyone else, but they do have an opinion like anyone else.