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

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.

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

..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.

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.

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

I want to be the girl with the most cake.

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.

If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.