Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

Adventure runs on all sorts of whiskey.

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

Books are wonderful, but they aren't that powerful.

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change

Working is part of life, I don't know how to distinguish between the two... Work is an expression of life.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.