When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

She could forgive him for missing their dinner date, but she would never forgive him for dying.

We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs, wages, and well-being come first.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!

I didn't know what to say when someone's given you a small free kiss in the dark.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus.

Do unto others what has been done to you.

There are a few good 'psych' groups but too many never change from their first appearance. They don't develop.

This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.

Learn to be comfortable with the concept of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being.