I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

Jesus had to reveal what prayer was not, before He taught what it is.

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

I think the harder the shoot, the more I feel like I'm enjoying myself.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.

Whenever there is a conflict between being right and being kind, if possible, choose being kind.

I prefer fact to fiction.