Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

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.

Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

The S.S. Sierra was a ten-thousand-ton vessel. Today, lifeboats bigger than the Sierra are found on the Queen Mary and other luxury liners.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

I'm always looking to play the part that people don't think of me in.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.

Now is the time to know that God is able. To connect your current reality with God's present ability.

Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.