If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

What does not engage our feelings does not long engage our thoughts either.

There are two kinds of people: those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievements from the second.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.

Ox-Bow was a very free place, very open. You could do whatever you wanted to do.

You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

One of the great things about collecting contemporary art is that you mix with contemporary people.

Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.