The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

When someone received immortal love, their life becomes eternal.

Polarization breeds respect..

If luck wouldn't find him, he would do his best to make his own.

Life is just too beautiful if meaning is attached to it, and useless when meaningless!!

In times of difficulty friendship is on trial.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

A photographer is an acrobat treading the high wire of chance, trying to capture shooting stars.

I myself think anti-Semitism is about envy.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.