A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
We're lost, but we're making good time
A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
All thinking men are atheists.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.