I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

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.

...never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own.

If you work you will never go hungry.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I see through your brain like I see through the water that runs down the drain.

Real patriots ask questions.

I live below my means because it makes what I do seem less like a job and more like a passion.

Nobody looks better than when they are helping someone else.

I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.