I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

What interested me about Chuck Berry was the way he could step out of the rhythm part with such ease, throwing in a nice, simple riff, and then drop straight into the feel of it again. We used to play a lot more rhythm stuff. We'd do away with the differences between lead and rhythm guitar. You can't go into a shop and ask for a "lead guitar". You're a guitar player, and you play a guitar.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.