Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Other things my best friend said to me: That two years was but a short span.

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

I smile a lot. I heard someone say once that it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown, so i'm trying it out.

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

I...have been in that weird state between dreaming and waking, where dreams could be memories and the real world could be a dream.

If you’re hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

Lucky is where skill meets persistence.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.