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.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

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

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

Most guys I know are assholes. I have some great asshole friends, but that's not the point. Friendship has got nothing to do with that. It's can you hang, can you talk about this without any feeling of distance between you? Friendship is the diminishing of distance between people. That's what friendship is, and to me it's one of the most important things in the world.