I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.

You are a side effect, " Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

Once your film is done, you can't explain to people what something was supposed to be. You can't give them footnotes. It all has to be there.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'