This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

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!"

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.