Listen, listen, listen.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

Learn everything you know in all keys.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

As an artist you need to move on, you need to try new things.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.