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.

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.

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.

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Punk is always something that's going to be with us and to try and explain that would be stupid at this point.

We have to talk about it to find out what's going ... because the press, honestly, is out of control.

I don't see anybody as either ordinary or extraordinary. I see them simply as people in front of my lens.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

There are demons and there are evil people in the world, and you post a picture like that and some cultist gets a hold of it or a coven and they begin muttering curses against an unborn child.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.