I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is.

I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage.

Every song is like a painting.