When you're onstage with an electric band going through a massive P.A. system, it's very artificial. You can't really hear your own voice as it comes out of your mouth.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

There is but one good throw upon the dice which is to throw them away.

It's always interesting for me that people vote against their interests.

Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.