I can't make you love me, if you don't.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

When it's a funky uptempo song, you're basically having the same kind of release you would have when you have sex, only it lasts longer. Whether you're playing it on the guitar or on the dance floor, you're in that moment.

Finding great songs is the hard part of my gig - it's not as hard as songwriting, that's much more daunting - but I love playing other people's music.

It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.

How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine