I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

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.

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

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