I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

Nothing has value without self worth

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor — poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

It's fun wandering around other people's minds.

Brunette is who I am obviously, it's my core. Blonde Kim is this alter ego; she has a vibe to her that I love.

We're excited for when Sony greenlights the $50 million film a "Bunch Of Swirling Colors" starring George Clooney and a lava lamp.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.