“If you pick up a guitar and it says, ‘take me, I’m yours,’ then that’s the one for you.”

A composer’s job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Sometimes you got to get sick before you can feel better.

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Don’t go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

If your children ever find out how lame you really are, they’ll murder you in your sleep.

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

One size does not fit all.

It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain’t what you’re not. So see what you got?

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

All your children are poor unfortunate victims of systems beyond their control

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

I don’t want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that’s more my personal taste.

And he was about my age, and he just, that finished off my guitar career, just like that, in one afternoon.

For my 20th birthday in March, I’ll buy myself a present for doing my best. A one way ticket to Tokyo. All I need is my guitar and a pack of cigarettes.

Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

No matter how long you play the guitar, there’s always something else to learn.

I’m actually better on the guitar than when I started, I think, because I’ve had so much time with it and I still practice and I love to do it and I love to sing.

I always liked the idea of the guitar – because cowboys played the guitar.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.