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

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

There are only two things to remember. Number one: Don’t Stop, and number two: Keep going!

You can bet everything will come to an end. It’s going to be ugly and it’s going to be a mess, and it’s going to be something that somebody did in the name of God.

The universe consists of 5% protons, 5% neutrons, 5% electrons and 85% morons.

Censoring what you say is one of the ways in which people who are not nice can take away your personal freedom.

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it’s going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it.

One and one is eleven.

The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.

I enjoy irritating the people who enjoy being irritated.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

If we can’t be free at least we can be cheap.

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

Sometimes, I must admit, I’d like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn’t look right. I’d like to play for another 20 years, but I don’t know. I just can’t see it happening. I don’t know why. It’s a certain foreboding. A funny feeling. Vultures.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles’ faces on it. It would be a collector’s item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.

I came to NAMM once and saw this guitar that self-tuned, and I thought, ‘Wow, this is the future!’ And I’ve never seen it again.

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he’d get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there’s of course the lullaby which Dido sang, “If I Rise.” And then there’s this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.