I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back—no hope to ever make my heart complete without him

Even if most days can’t be half as good as today, it’s days like this that make it all worth it.

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination....

Nothing Succeeds like excess!

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.