A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

I mean, let's look at it in the other way. If they claim that words have this mysterious power over people, well, 99 percent of on the songs on the radio deal with the topic of love and we use the term loosely. So, kids have heard love, love, love, love ... the minute they turn on the radio. Do you see any kids doing love? I see them doing crack ... but not love. So, it's bullshit!

My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that is so horrible that it will send you to burn forever in that lake of fire! It's not gonna happen.

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.