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 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 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.

There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart’s desires, and stay on course.

We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

A woman never tells you why she loves; she just tells you how she loves.

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out.

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions.

It was believed by the purveyors of male fantasies in films that nurses were a popular male fantasy because they were caring, and they were women who could legitimately touch men all over.

See it big, and keep it simple.