I don't play for the guitarists in the audience. I play for the musicians.

A lot of people think that if they learn to read music they are gonna lose their feel or their groove or something. It's the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

Once we choose hope, everything is possible.

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

To get nominated, and a lot of people get nominated and say they're glad to be nominated but I wanna win! I want to win!

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We dont need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House.

I said [to my mom], "I want to go to the parachute regiment." She said, "Whew, that's tough. But okay, I understand."

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.