It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

A lot of people don't listen to the albums. They just listen to the singles.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

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

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.