There are guys in country music who are wizards on the guitar. If you're a country fan, you're used to it. But as a rock guitar player, you listen.

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

The '70's came and went already

I collect firearms, and I've got a Winchester, an Indian rifle. It has tacks for every warrior that was shot, like notches on a pistol, and it's got feathers and beads hanging off it. It's like a work of art.

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

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.

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.