My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

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.

Today I trust me. I trust in my perceptions. Today I will live my own truth that glows within, a life of no deceptions.

Let how you live your life stand for something no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.

I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

I've been doing things myself in the sense that I haven't had a night nurse or anything like that, so I've spent every night with baby except for the nights that I've had to travel.

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.