I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

I have my own hard earned money and if I buy a fly rod I'm going to give my money to the company that's giving me value. I'm going to the guy who gives me my money's worth.

There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

Let's have some new cliches.

Wish you were here, we can get lost in the forest together and eat bamboo rice.

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else's entertainment.

No one spiritual path is better than another, although one may accept the universe's role in life more than another.

Look, I'm over 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

We will compromise and compromise and compromise but we will never be compromised.