There are definitely things about 'Legendary Child' that echo the music we did earlier in our career. It's got the right stuff.

I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

My chosen instrument is guitar and, fortunately, I'm able to muddle through that. I can play guitar to the point where I can express myself artistically.

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity