A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

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.

People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime another a crown.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

We must purposefully create a life of gratitude if we want to be fully alive.

The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good.

We're the weirdest monkeys ever.

She was one if the few souls that made me wonder what's it to live.

One may even suspect that there is more to reality than measurements will ever reveal.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.