But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

I don't go walking into things blind.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.