If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

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

I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally fascinating plank of wood with knobs and switches on it. I just had to have one.

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.

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 play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.