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.

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!

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

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

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

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

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.