To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Make your destiny before your destiny makes you...

And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.

The Secret of Happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

There was a space program before there was integrated circuits.

It is only when you realize that you are mortal and yet immortal simultaneously that you begin to realize that the beautiful incongruities of existence aren't incongruous at all, but rather perfect.

I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed.

The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

During the past twenty-three years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I’m proud to say that these goals have been achieved.

And I simply decided to be happy again.