You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

It just seemed to me that the way I played was nice. I could hear it myself.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Music is good for everybody. They say it soothes the savage beast. Well, I think theirs a beast in all of us. So let's get some more music and soothe all the beasts out there.