I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower.

I rarely drink coffee. I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.... He must have the passion of a lover.

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'For me,' he explains his mammoth project, 'it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them …