Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

You look so good it hurts sometimes.