To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

The bottom line is down where it belongs - at the bottom.

He glanced at her, musing on the wonder of a beautiful woman with a disagreeable personality.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

Wherever I go, I run into myself.

It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my first novel, 'Lucky Jim.

Do your duty and think about God all day from morning to evening. See everything as God.