For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

Happiness earned, not given.

Everything happens for a reason. Wait on God and trust in Him. He wants the best for us. He wants to take us from glory to glory, and from victory to victory.

No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

If you lose the Spirit, you are lost.

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.