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

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.