Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Your ancestors are rooting for you.

I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying i learn to live.

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row.

Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences.

Traveling the world I've learned that progressives, regardless of their locations, think in a global space.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?