The point is, I'm weird, but I never felt weird.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

What I have to say to an inhabitant of the Earth in one hundred years is similar to what I have to say to the present inhabitants of Earth. To be creative.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul