Reps once took chances on art, History's most treasured musicians were believed in and cultivated to reach their potential. Today, it would be difficult for those musicians to get deals.

The level of achievement that we have at anything, is a reflection, of how well, we were able to focus on it. Because the only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

The only thing that's holding you back, is the way you're thinking.

Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

The tone is in your fingers, not in your amp or effects.

I was always one of those guys who was a seeker after truth. I want to know what's going on.

I knew that I was going to have a life as a musician, because I always felt the pull. I don't remember ever having to make a choice.

If you're feeling emotional when you're creating something, it'll sound that way.

Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Do you work at the grocery store? Then why are you checking me out?

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

It's worth everything to be in the World Series.

If it can be dreamed, it can be done.