I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

We are most alive when we're in love.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Passion is momentary love is enduring.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.

Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.