I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

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.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

The only protection against INJUSTICE in man is POWER?Physical, financial and scientific.

Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.

It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.

The world belongs to the discontented.

The most wonderful thing in the world is somebody who knows who they are and knows where they're going and knows what they were created to do