All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.

It is a well-known mystery that guitar players suddenly get better once they are dead. Buddy Holly was the first. Stevie Ray Vaughan is known by a lot more people than had ever heard of him when he was alive.

They [The Beatles] were the first band to not have a lead singer in the band.

Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

It will be funny in about 10 years.

I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!