When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son'.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

You shape your own destiny.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too well. And by that time I was too rich to care.

Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.

Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

I've always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.

I became hysterical and frightened and begged for sedation. And that was just the first prenatal visit.

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

In a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.

Sometimes models are surprisingly smart.

To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.