I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

Music is energy, and energy is the single most important form of it in the world. Without energy, there is no life. The only difference between a dead person and a live person is the energy, the electricity flowing inside their system, and that's what makes music.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

Music has always carried me through times of loneliness. So when I make music, I like it to make people who listen to it feel like they have a friend who reveals something personal to them, rather than trying to be like a god up on a pedestal

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

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?