I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Educated men are so impressive!

No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

I know I burn for you.Even in my sleep, the sleep of our people where there can be no thought,I burn for you.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.

A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.

You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.