While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

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.

I am living on hope and faith ... a pretty good diet when the mind will receive them.

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

A car hit a Jewish man. The paramedic says, "Are you comfortable?" The man says, "I make a good living."

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.