It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.

Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

When you think about where guitar playing is going today...: it's going everywhere at the same time.