If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

I was in awe sometimes listening to Mick Taylor . Everything was there in his playing - the melodic touch, a beautiful sustain and a way of reading a song.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

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 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 wouldn't warm to [Chuck Berry] even if I was cremated next to him.