What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Memories aren't supposed to be hidden anyway.

his lips drink water but his heart drinks wine

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.

The most interesting thing I've ever heard about myrself that isn't true is that I'm not a nice guy.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

You were born God's original. Try not to become someone's copy.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.