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.

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

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

Everybody [in The Beatles ] was singing at the same time and the harmonies were great.

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.

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

Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.