I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.

Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.