I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

You are beautiful. Have a day much like yourself.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

What I feel best about is that while I enjoy what I have and don't want to lose it, I also don't need it.

Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.

If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.