When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

Love is the essence of life.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.

Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths.

I am quite above physical death and believe it to be only the birth throes for a much purer life in a much purer draping.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.