When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't you want to play guitar?

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.

Eee-nee-mee-nee-my-nee-moe

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Our body always tells us what it wants and needs—the question is whether we are listening.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Never face facts if you do you'll never get up in the morning.

Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . .

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

I don't even know why somebody's Twittering as me. I don't understand it, and I wish that it would stop. But there's nothing that can be done. It's so terrible.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!