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 go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

What I want to get out of my college course is some knowledge of the best way of living life and doing the most and best with it. I want to learn to understand and help other people and myself.

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

Only the journey matters.

I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; its loneliness.

There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.