I also know that I am not a great technician.

I also know that I am not a great technician.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

Cancer is really hard to go through and its really hard to watch someone you love go through and I know because I have been on both sides of the situation.

I think personal growth has much to do with acting ability.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Dont tell people how to do things tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

The true wealth of a man is not what's in his pocket, but what's in his heart.

Playing with Tom Watson, I grew up a little bit. Even if he didn't say something to you, even if he didn't give you advice, you have grown up just watching him. It was great.

I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

Heightened perception is the goal: becoming more aware of how you see, not just what you see.

Enough had been thought and said and felt and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

When we are in competition with ourselves and match our todays against our yesterdays we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover the competition with ourselves leaves unimpaired our benevolence toward our fellow men.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

I've always suggested if you can't stand the sight of your own blood, don't run for office.

By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.

I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

As long as people want to see me do this action and sci-fi stuff, it would be wrong of me to deny the fans what they want to see.