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

They [The Beatles ] were the first band to write their own songs in Britain because we always just covered American songs before that.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

We were nominated [for Grammy] once before for our album 1916. We were up against Metallica at the time and they had just sold a quarter of a zillion albums.

...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.

Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.

It was just a mercy f**k, as it was our 30th anniversary. They gave Grammy to us for a cover of somebody else's song. It would have a lot more meaning if it had been for one of our songs.