What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

My mom really wanted me to be a musician so she gave me a guitar for my fifth birthday, but I didn't start playing till I was seven.

I wasn't very big on going to school. I tried to get a gig as a luthier.

I'm working on guitars for free, because I love working on guitars anyway.

Hold onto your creativity, that idealism that is rooted in some degree of innocence and a firm belief in something finer than the things we already have.

No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Higher position means greater service and an apportunity to purely represent Srila Prabhupada. Hence our management must be based on humility and tolerance.

Corporations complained about [safety] regulations, but let's face it, people walk away from accidents now that would have killed them when I was a kid

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

I couldn't love fashion more, like I don't think it's possible to love fashion more. I will say, since I've had my son ... he has surpassed that love

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.