I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.