All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It's the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.

Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.

I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.

A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything to one.

In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

I don't want people in China to have deep pockets but shallow minds.

There were decades I didn't play sober. I thought, Who would want to? But at some point, I decided that if it was important enough to me to keep doing it as art, I should do it with all my tools.

The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.