It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Life is more than being happy

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Anybody who listens to their intuition risk at times making other people disappointed or even pissed off because you're not tending to what they want from you but instead to what feels right for you.

I'm adaptable. A nomad, my mom always says." Zoe raised an eyebrow. "Your mom?" "Well I wasn't spawned.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination

Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.