My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.

I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

Bread Street Kitchen is a big operation, a unique beast, and it needs bedding in.

What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.