The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I would say that if you don't feel like talking to the crowd something is wrong and if you force yourself to talk to them things will happen and to that extent things aren't choreographed.

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Awakening is not something you achieve. It is something you relax into.

The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

Faith is the inborn capacity to see God behind everything.

The streets were dark with something more then night.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.