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

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

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

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

As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters.

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.