I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

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

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

I never really felt at home with that - the headbands, the roses, the feet, the peace sign, all that bollocks. That wasn't me at all; I felt like a fish totally out of water during the mid-'60s thing.

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.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?