But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

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

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.