With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving.

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

We do a wealth of stuff (live), drawing from over the years.

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't work; it was fun actually.

I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride ... that's pretty much what feedback is.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

My trouble is I talk first and think later.

Toronto is amazing, it's one of my favourite cities to visit. Toronto and Montreal are just super dope places.

My weapon is just a movie.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.