I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

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

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

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