Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'
Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.
Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'
I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.
Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.
I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.
I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.
I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.
What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.
We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.
I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.
Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.
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