I've got very strong hands from playing for many years.

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.

If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.

They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.

Sometimes money is the only thing that people have and they feel threatened when they think they are losing it.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

'The Desolation of Smaug' stands alone as an action/adventure epic movie. It's visually stunning, and the 3D is incredible. Plus, it's directed by Peter Jackson, and he's extraordinary.

Do one act of kindness each day of the year and change 365 lives.

Faith and optimism come from love.

Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?

unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.