I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

Record the album after the tour.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don't mind, because I have eternity to rest.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

I've had only three wives and three guitars in my life, though I've flirted with others.