I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

Check out the albums, ... Check out the live performances. That's the reality of it all. Music is such an energizing thing.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show.It's the most level commentary you can find.You have to laugh, because it's all so true.It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

I keep healthy and I'm always very active and always have been so. I don't really see any signs of aging yet. Music keeps you young.

I also went to art school and learned to play a piano there, but I play by ear.

I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.

Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

I always make it a point to pick songs on which players really shine.

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping.

Leadership defined: An equal and dual commitment to both results and relationships without compromising one for the other.

I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.

Podcasting is great. Total freedom.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

I'm an introverted sort of writer.