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

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.

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

These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.

I'm fascinated by idiots... Here's looking at you, kid!

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

There's a battle between what the cook thinks is high art and what the customer just wants to eat.

What really surprised me was that more than half of all deaths by gunshot are suicides, more than 20,000 a year, about 58 a day.

I fear debt. I don't like being indebted to banks. I have a rule in life that I will get it when I can afford it.