“I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.”

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

Lately I’ve been running on faith.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

I can’t play long solos anymore without boring myself.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.

The only planning I do is about a minute before I play. I desperately try to think of something that will be effective, but I never sit down and work it out note for note.

Give me a guitar and I’ll play; give me a stage and I’ll perform; give me an auditorium and I’ll fill it.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don’t realize how much I love you.

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

My Father’s Eyes’ is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father’s eyes was when I looked into my son’s eyes.

I feel like I’ve never been in a film that people have liked before.

You make me feel the way Christmas did when I was a kid, I’d close my eyes look to the skies and magic became real.

Feeling lost is a sign that you’re finally listening to yourself and no longer conforming to what is expected of you.

My notebook couldn’t carry the burden of all those words which my heart once felt.

So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

God didn’t say, ‘Be still and feel that I am God,’ He said, ‘Be still and know’.