I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.

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

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

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

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

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