I just want to be treated like an average guy.

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

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.

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.

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.

the future belongs to those societies that treat new ideas as delicate, fragile and immensely valuable pathways to the future.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

We each belong to and are needed in the family of God.

The problem is: When two governments or institutions in Europe hold differing opinions, it is immediately a crisis.

The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel.

It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.