After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.

I just get all jacked up when we start cooking.

Sometimes I'll be playing along and find I'm missing the strings. I'll worry about it for days until I notice that the pick has worn down to half its size.

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!

But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place.

Well, first I'd want a better vibrato.

About the only other thing I'd want would be a wider neck. My fingers are so fat that sometimes I deaden the string next to the one I'm fretting.

After The Ventures I dug Johnny Smith quite a bit.

I'm too busy playing to worry about the movement or the fingerboard.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

The healthy man is the thin man. But you dont need to go hungry for it Remove the flours starches and sugars thats all.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

The Great Work is before all things the creation of man by himself that is to say the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

It's funny, we all really, really got along. I don't know how it was in years past but this year, I was really with a good group of people. No one tried to sabotage each other or steal the other ones moments.

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

The theatre is traditionally where people go to hear the truth.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to. It has a much more percussive rhythm to it.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

It's funny because, if you're not an actor, people always tend to say, 'How do you memorize all those lines? Is that really hard?' I'm always like, 'That's just a small part of it. I have to seek my craft and my emotions' - you know, all this gross, actor-y stuff.

The only problem is time.

You live but once you might as well be amusing.

New York is who I am.

The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think.