I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

When you allow the spirit to speak through you and empower it with love, you will discover things you didn't know you knew.

Ralph Waldo Pickle Chips! I don’t know him.

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.

My life is not just about the past.

My vision is my best attribute. I can see everything.

From an art perspective, I dont know how you get better than Beetlejuice. In terms of originality and a look, its 100% unique.

It makes sense in that environment that you would hold on in the U.S. government to the people who know their way around this particular block.

In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop.