You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug

Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.