"Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up."

“Use the right word, not its second cousin.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. Do every act of your life as if it were your last. In a word, your life is short. You must make the most of the present with the aid of reason and justice. Since it is possible that you may be quitting life this very moment, govern every act and thought accordingly.”

“All haters are losers, even when they win.”

“... each artist attracts his own different set of fans. And G3 over the years has created it's own audience as well... they know it's something unusual and special that they're not going to get anywhere else ... young and old, both sexes, all come out. They all look at each other like, Wow, what are those people over there ? ... They're surprised at their own diversity...”

Source : "From the Archive: Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen Discuss the 2003 G3 Tour". "Guitar World" Interview, www.guitarworld.com. November 2003.

“When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 08, 2013

“If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.”

“Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.”

“The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org