When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.

Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, then fun footwear is a great way to jazz it up and make your ensemble more interesting.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

After "Jack Reacher" the parts I didn't like, most of it was silly.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.