Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

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.

When an ignorant reads ignorant things or when he comes together with other ignorant, his ignorance will deepen and his fate will worsen!

Success is obtained from failure. It is the one that learn that triumph”.

Charity: begins at home and remains there. When it goes out, it's because it wants to brag about itself

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

If you get into the area of judging the character you're playing you're getting into a sticky area.

One of the outcomes of a Spirit-filled life is a new illumination to understand God's Word.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience of the thing.

I don't like all this talking in the press.

My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.