Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

There's no right or wrong, success or failure.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.