I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.
The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.
If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.
Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.
Once I've settled on something I'll stay with that at least throughout the whole tour.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart.
The real point is that you cannot harbor malice toward others and then cry foul when someone displays intolerance against you. Prejudice tolerated is intolerance encouraged. Rise up in righteousness when you witness the words and deeds of hate, but only if you are willing to rise up against them all, including your own. Otherwise suffer the slings and arrows of disrespect silently.
Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.
If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.