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.

Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

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

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

The public library is the great equaliser.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.