Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard!

Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.

To write you into poems, and make you unerasable.

I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.

Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.

Under ideal conditions, the barrister and the bhangi (sweeper) should both get the same payment.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.