When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

People are eager to walk in other people's pair of shoes that does not fit them. The result is that, their dreams begin to imitate a "tortoise" walk and that I guess is already uncomfortable!

Well, if my crime is love, then I am indeed guilty

Oceans are vast and almost bottomless. You dance in the rain Elizabeth. You drown in the sea.

I back away from conscious thought and turn the problem over to my unconscious mind. It will scan a broader array of patterns and find some new close fits from other information stored in my brain.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

You should be smart enough to know that you don't know everything. But you have to believe in yourself. I certainly do.

We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

A good conscience and a good confidence go together.