Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

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.

I couldn't believe how good Jimi Hendrix was It was a really difficult thing for me to deal with, but I just had to surrender and say, 'This is fantastic.'

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 was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.