I don't recall getting a first guitar.

In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

I was too broke to buy a guitar so I more borrowed guitars from friends.

I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.

You know, you don't please everybody.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

You teach others how to treat you by how you treat others.

We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live.

When Nehemiah's heart was broken he paid attention to his broken heart.

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled.

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

She's incredible, not that she's perfect. But you once said imperfections create character.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?