I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

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!"

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.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

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

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.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.