I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

Death should take more care with his paperwork.

I want to shake them for their ignorance and scream that their Sistine Chapel is filled with cracks.

She's your once in a lifetime girl.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Well my favorite is really really sharp, extra sharp, aged cheddar cheese.

I love being in love. It's the best feeling in the world. I have never felt like this before.

Salander never forgets an injustice, and by nature she was anything but forgiving.