When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I'm not saying I wouldn't play a seven-string. It's just that I've never needed one. Most dudes who play seven-strings don't sound any different than someone playing a six-string that's tuned down.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.

Are we praying?" "If you have to ask, you probably aren't.

You loved her, " Isobel

Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

a sick room is at times too sacred a place for a friend's knock, timid as that is.

Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

Friends give you a shoulder to cry on. But best friends are ready with a shovel to hurt the person that made you cry.

Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that.