To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

Colors don't come in shapes.They come in depth.

I wonder if I should believe what she says. But when you're not strong in yourself, anyone can tell you anything and you'll fall for it.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends.

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.