If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.

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

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

A guitar is something you can hold and love and it's never going to bug you. But here's the secret about the guitar - it's defiant. It will never let you conquer it. The more you get involved with it, the more you realize how little you know.

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

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.