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

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.

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

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

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.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

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