I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

I don't recall getting a first guitar.

I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

You know, you don't please everybody.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

A love for his child was so profound, it spilled over to all humanity.

I go where I'm stimulated. If I'm stimulated, I show up. As Mick Jagger sings: It's my life and I'll do what I want.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

For a young cartoonist, they have to get going on the web, because that's where everybody goes for their information. And it really works.

A system can not understand itself.