I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Your mother won a special reward, " she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Life gives you what you expect, what you are prepared to put up with or can change.

Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.

I had thought that successful people, wealthy people, prosperous people, don’t stretch themselves and they don’t live a life of pressure. Well I was wrong.

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.

We have not received the Spirit of God because we believe, but that we may believe.

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.