Sometimes you gotta be an s.o.b., you wanna make a dream reality

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.

There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster