It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

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.

I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.

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

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.