“I jumped in the river and what did I see? Black-eyed angels swimming with me.”

“When you play music, it has to be you, because if it’s not, why on earth would anybody else listen if they could just put on a record of the person you are trying to sound like? Be influenced but be you.”

“Music can change the world because it can change people.”

“Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone’s got their own character, and that’s the thing that’s amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone’s approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it’s all valid.”

“Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there’s a generation of kids now who won’t know it, post-Linkin Park.”