I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.