The guitar is of no great importance to me. The people it brings to me are what matter. They are what I'm extremely grateful for, because they are alive. The guitar is just an apparatus.

Jazz is the continual pulsation of the now.

True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse

The music has generated all the techniques I use.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Germany must either be a world power or there will be no Germany

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.

When you put yourself in environments that continually test you, that's where all the good stories come from. That's where the jokes come from is from the shitty parts.

To be my man, you have to put up with a lot. I toot under the sheets, I spend a lot of money and I can belch the ABCs.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

If I ran into a 19-year-old version of myself, I'd just tell her to live, full out. I might also tell her to go ahead and have a few babies and not worry about the timing of it.

No honey for me, if it comes with a bee.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.