Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.