I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

I don't deal in technique. I deal in emotions.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.