I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

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.

I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z.But this was diff

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

My dreams kind of came through when I went to see the cinema.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.

Especially moments when things are very difficult and complicated for me and I am still trying to grasp what is happening and I am still trying to understand and to reach family back home.

What we have in Colombia is a war against the poor and the guerillas from the left side are against the poor.

The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.