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

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

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?

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

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

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.