So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

Be brave and take risks… You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness

Sometimes, to avoid obstacles, you must also avoid appellation.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well

Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Coaches who scrimmage all the time don't know what to practice.

Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.