I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

It is complexes that prevent women with a good appearance from adequately assessing themselves

Over the summit, I saw the so-called Mono desert lying dreamily silent in the thick, purple light -- a desert of heavy sun-glare beheld from a desert of ice-burnished granite.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

Well the Lone Ranger and Tonto, they are riding down the line fixing everybody's troubles, everybody except mine.

It is an ancient story Yet is it ever new.

Nothing is quite as satisfying and exhausting as teaching.

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

My mother-in-law has so many wrinkles, when she smiles she looks like a Venetian blind.

I always say that if you're a novelist, the challenge is not writing what you think ought to happen, but trying in some way to write what did happen in a world that doesn't necessarily exist.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst