Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

All I can do is do what I can do, and do what I know how to do. I do what I love to do, and that's pretty much it.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.

I don't think anything can touch the expressive range of the guitar.

Music is soaking up things that I see in other people or things that go on in my life, and I put it out there in the form of a song.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.

I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

Your calling is in your difference and uniqueness

Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!

We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone.

She counted her blessings, rather than her misfortunes.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Things are going to go wrong. The great chefs are the ones that don't let it fluster them. They just move through it.

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

That's where I'd like to be: when the business says here's a good actor who is marketable so we can use him. Just that.