You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

That's at the core of equity: understanding who your kids are and how to meet their needs. You are still focused on outcomes, but the path to get there may not be the same for each one.

Writing has to support itself.