I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

I think we're just a garage band that got lucky. It's the enthusiasm from the audience that keeps it going.

The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

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