Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.

every loss, every mistake, was seared into her soul, creating a different kind of tattoo, one made from rage and abandonment, heart break and tears

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.

They [Chinese] are taking our jobs, they're giving incentives, they're doing things that, frankly, we don't do.

If you want to take down your opponent, you do it tactically, point by point.

You just may be a redneck if your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

There's a lot of wounded people out there who don't believe that there's any way they'll ever be healed from those wounds.