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

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.

.. 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.

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

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