If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.

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.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

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.