This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

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

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

I don't know of a guitar player that has only one guitar. They're never happy with one. I'm never happy with just one of them. I woke up and ended up with six, even if you can only play one at a time!

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

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

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.