Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing.

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

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

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.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.