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.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience