I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I ….

There are all kinds of mix tapes. There is always a reason to make one..

Music is the perfect type of art..

You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary..

The blessing of this music is that it is fun to do and it keeps evolving..

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain..

I liken feedback to the effect of when you go surfing; you can get pummeled by a wave, but if you balance the forces right, you can have a dandy ride….

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might….

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience..

I'm not sure I ever pleased Ian [Buchanan] with my progress, but he continued to tolerate me. I had to work at everything that I did. Well, it wasn't….

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them..

I can only be me. I do what I do, I'm not a jazz player. ... I don't play jazz standards, at least not in any recognizable way. It's not my turf but ….

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

I react emotionally to everything!.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

I'd like to have a go at directing..

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not..

Just because a guitar is old doesn't make it good... I've seen guitars that were old but weren't as good as the reissue ... for me, it's not the age ….

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn..