"Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix."

"Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incr…"

"Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind."

"There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span."

"If I had done things differently, I'd probably have the paparazzi waiting around for me. At the studio where I've bee…"

"I am not in Us Weekly. I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself."

"The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and…"

"I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it."

"If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time,…"

"I love the Grammy nominations this year. Anybody who really loves what they do got rewarded for it. It's not a death …"