You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

There's so much that can be done on the guitar. And that's what is so good about the guitar - everyone can really enjoy themselves on it and have a good time, which is what it's all about.

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

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.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

Every musician wants to do something which will hold up for a long time, and I guess we did it with 'Stairway to Heaven.'