I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

My chops were not as fast... [but] I just learned more on what was in my mind than what was in my chops. I learned a long time ago that one note can go a long way if it's the right one, and it will probably whip the guy with twenty notes