“I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were s...” — Donovan Quote

I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.'

My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.

Yogis have human emotions, but the thing is not to let anger and doubt become an obsession.

I'm probably the most successful Celtic bard of my generation, who projected this style and this image and this casketful of magical songs all around the world.

Frederico Pena is an amazing talented guitarist and producer.

Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.