You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.