I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

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.

How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!

Integrity must become a personal goal of a growing majority in America if we want to be a major world influence.

It is better to love someone who does not deserve your love than love no one.

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

The best teams play for each other, not with each other

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.