I can go to India and draw 20,000 people at a concert, and it's really because I've built up an internet presence.

I think no matter how much you learn, there's always more to learn.

I wanted to be like my heroes, but I also wanted to be me.

If you can keep learning, you can still do your thing, and keep singing or whatever, and still do innovative things.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

At age ten I switched to guitar, and I've loved the instrument ever since. And I love to practice. I just do. I just love guitar. It still brings a smile to my face!

life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.

I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

Drag a $100 bill through a trailer camp and there's no telling what you will find.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.