To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old wooden guitar, I could crawl in and close the lid.

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

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

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.