I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

That’s us, ” he said. “Those five nuts right there.”Which one is me?” I asked.The little deformed one, ” Zoe suggested.Oh, shut up.

Managers are people who know what they want.Leaders are people who get what they want.

I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself.

Faith and hope are the antidote. Stay actively involved in manifesting your dreams and the world created will be one we all want to live in.

Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.