The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.