You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

We don't need bigger cars or fancier clothes. We need self-respect, identity, community, love, variety, beauty, challenge and a purpose in living that is greater than material accumulation.

It's you people dying from nothing that are screwed. I got all sorts of neat gadgets waiting for me...oxygen tent, iron lung.

You're just too poor to get rich.

For the people of God, the Word of God leaves pleasant bruises.

Just in case you get pneumonia or die. The dangerous bits are always the last days of shooting.

One of the best things about her was that she actually acknowledged my existence.

A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.

I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

Remember God likes us best when we are flying by the seats of our pants.