The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.
I grew up in a gym in Miami, the one where Muhammad Ali trained. I had 142 amateur fights and lost three.
I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.
I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.
Comeback is a good word, man.
I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone. . .
If you do not find peace within, you will not find it anywhere else. The Goal of Life is the attainment of Peace and not the achievement of power, name, fame and wealth.
You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.
There is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't.
I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.