My energy flagged because of heavy cold but the guys took up the slack.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

It's a matter of fact that Senator Obama has spent more money on negative ads than any political campaign in history.

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.

I remember surfing in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, even Madeira, when local fishermen had never seen a surfboard before, and refused to believe that we could ride a wave on one.