I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

what is a journeywithout someone who wandersif sometimes a pairis made of two

Another consequence of not knowing the value of what you possess in this case the value of life is that, there would be some other people around you that will better understand what you possess.

Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning? A: Unfertilized

No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

I believe in the power of the voice of women.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

My suit blew up into a parachute. All this water rushed in, there's air, water in there. I was freaking out.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.