We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

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!"

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

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.