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

Having lovers and friends is all good and fine But I don't like yours and you don't like mine.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

Like a fool, I fell in love with you, Turned my whole world upside down