There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

I'm pretty good at letting people do what they are good at, that's why they're experts.

Somebody's going to wake up and their job in life is going to be to make guitars. There are a lot of good, talented people.

In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61.

I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

I have my own hard earned money and if I buy a fly rod I'm going to give my money to the company that's giving me value. I'm going to the guy who gives me my money's worth.

People by themselves can be pretty stupid. People working together can be very powerful.

I see money as a reflection of how much impact you're having on the world. I see money as a metaphor in a way.

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.

Sometimes I do an automatic songs, songs that you don't really think about, or work on. You just look back and it sorta surprises you.

It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.

Maybe language is kind, giving us these double meanings. Maybe it's trying to teach us a lesson, that we can always be two things at once.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.

Pink Friday Eminem 8 Mile, It must hurt to sell your album on Paypal.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.