I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.

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

I've got holes in my guitar.

Music is an attitude. It's a sensation to the average person, to the human being. And keep it simple, stupid. That's always been my theory.

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

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