I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

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.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

Kids books Grownup books That's just marketing. Books are books.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily. If a person does not invent herself, she will be invented. So, to be bodacious enough to invent ourselves is wise.

I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.