I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe

Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem

It is better to Leap than to Sleep

Once you start living together and you see the same person day in and day out, you begin to wonder: was it for this I struggled and toiled? Did he feel that way?

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

I hate reality TV, because it's so bullshit.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

Live one day without any unhealthy thoughts. It may be very difficult, but try another day until it becomes habitual, and life will move in the direction of becoming healthy, vital and alive.

I am the MacGyver of cooking. If you bring me a piece of bread, cabbage, coconut, mustard greens, pigs feet, pine cones...and a woodpecker, I'll make you a good chicken pot pie.