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

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.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

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

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

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

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.