I remember the snow in Canada and the lovely weather in New Zealand. And I slightly remember going to school there.

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.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

Education unfolds your beauty and lets you bloom to express your beauty.

...every woman has some reason to weep and weeping is sweetest when it is for another's sorrow.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.