The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.

The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

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.

I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.