When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.