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.

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.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.