I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

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.

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.

The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.

I tell the audience every night, "I hope you didn't pay more than face value on that ticket, because we ain't worth more than that, and you ain't gonna get any more than that."

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.

He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.

In short, the world abounds with simple delusions which we may call "happiness", if we be but able to entertain them.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

You know how much money the oil companies have? If you need some gas, just go fill your tank off and drive off - they're not going to miss it.

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.