As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

It takes true courage and real humility to say NO or YES!

The future of a country doesn't depend on its wealth but on its education.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

But I do think that Brexit, an exit of Britain from the European Union, would trigger real pressure on the United Kingdom.

When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'

still waters run deep. ~Tabitha