Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

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.

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

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.

We should all know more, live nearer to God, and grow in grace, if we were more alone. Meditation chews the cud and extracts the real nutriment from the mental food gathered elsewhere.

Life is too short to be wishing for things that have been proven by many to be achievable.

I hate being a teenager.""Why?""Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.

[Steven Sebring] presence was also nice for my children, who, having just lost their father, quite naturally craved warm male attention. They gravitated to him right away.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions.