Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.

Don't worry... it's not loaded...

Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

Change is to focus all your energy not in fixing the past but in recreating the future.

Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.

To envision the future

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

I absolutely love everything about Christmas music.

There are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in the USA on a daily basis.

All the discoveries seem to be discoveries of means.

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.

I am the only candidate for mayor of London with the experience of being a transport minister.