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

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented.

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

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

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