Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did..

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two..

I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for nearly 50 years..

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?.

My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all….

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?.

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7..

The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to the instrument you hold in your hands: if a guit….

Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it. Not Now!.

We had to sit in this courtroom in Reno for six weeks. It was like Disneyworld. We had no idea what a subliminal message was - it was just a combinat….

I don't want to hear from a band that pretty much sounds like another band. Oh I've heared this riff before, or I've heared these words that everyone….

Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing..

Don't be afraid to have nothing..

Guitar playing is both extremely easy for me and extremely difficult for me at the same time..

I have to reinvent myself..

I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm no….

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast..

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records..

What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guit….