... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

Some days I am the flower beneath the machine. And the machine rolls slowly on, blocking the sun, without a care for what it tramples beneath.

People think needing a man is weak. I believe what is truly weak is not ALLOWING ourselves to surrender to our deepest desire to have a protective, strong, caring, masculine man in our life.

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Believe that you can whip the enemy and you have won half the battle.

It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

In acting, you're only responsible for your part. When you're directing, the load is on your shoulders, so you have to feel a strong connection to the material. It's a higher bar to get over.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it.

I'm so used to being in a theater where there is always a narrative, but I'm more about the still moment, the painter inside me.