..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

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

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

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

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

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.