The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down'

I don’t eat meat because meat brings out negative qualities such as fear, anger, anxiety, aggressiveness, etc. Vegetables peacefully offer themselves to the earth when ripe, thus allowing a sublime and peaceful thought-conscio usness

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didnt listen to music for four days - thats a long time for me.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.