Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Cast your cares

You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.

History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.

What began with exuberance and passion always ended with terse accusations and hateful words, with rage and weeping fits.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

Sheep with a nasty side.

Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

Cats aren't special advisers. They advise us all the time, whether we want them to or no.

Yeah, sometimes life really sucks. But you know what I'm holding on for? The moments that don't suck. The trick is to notice them when they come around.