You should hear me on my own. It's horrendous.I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, Geez, this is ridiculous.

I've got the blues in my heart, and the devil in my fingers.

I wouldn't know any newer bands. We're past the pimple stage.

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

Soloing was pretty easy for me because it was probably the first thing I've ever done.

I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.