I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits