Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.
I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.
I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
I am a private person and that has always been my personality.
What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.
I think I have some of my clearest thoughts when I'm out running.
The human body has limitations. The human spirit is boundless.
Running is about finding your inner peace, and so is a life well lived.
Every day I spend time on the treadmill. I am walking faster, stronger and harder than I was two months ago.
I am always nervous before the start of a race. It helps me to say to myself to try my very best. That is my commitment. No matter how bad it gets, I will try my hardest.
I can drink tea until the cows come home and I love the atmosphere in tea-shops.
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy; about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.
With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.
I love to run and I have some tips to keep it fresh and novel. I rarely use the same route twice. That keeps things new.
If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
