It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.

I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be.

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

Acting alone, minorities can never achieve the majorities necessary for political change.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

People that are obsessed with hating you, feel flattered. Their whole lives revolve around you.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.