Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

If you are staying inside your comfort zone, It means you are in a prison and that hinders your life.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!

It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Let's say that, in reality, I'm basically very shy when it comes to men.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

The dinosaurs aren't remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity's gone, what do we give to this little planet that we're on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?

My heart was a desert You planted a seed And this is the flower This hour of sweet fulfillment

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.