It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

Often people with fine countenances and fit bodies were mistakenly assumed by others to have the brains to match.

You used," he said, and then took a sharp breath, "to call me Augustus.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism.

The masses of the people of Africa are crying for unity.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.