Treat each guitar track-and each song-completely different. For example, if I'm using a certain amp and guitar on one track, I'll deliberately use something else for the next tune or overdub.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

It might appear that nothing is happening, but that's actually when it really happens.

But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

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

I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'