"If a musician wants to be an actor, everyone thinks that's pretty cool. But if an actor wants to play a song, even if they've been doing it for 40 years, that's bad news."

"Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another."

"My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me."

"I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement."

"For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are."

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

"You don't have to play a whole lot of guitar to be a good blues player. Some people plays too much guitar. Stack it on top of each other the way it don't - you're working too fast. Blues not supposed to be played fast. Blues supposed to be played slow. You could kill a man with just one chord."

"Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game."