Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

My life is full of broken halos.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

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.

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

A painter's got a canvas. The writer's got reams of empty paper. A musician has silence.