I loved the guitar, and I had all of this music in my head. My passion for the guitar and the ideas for what I could create musically were equal. So that's where I was.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.

If you want to play something that you can't, you need to see and hear yourself doing it in your minds eye. It will start to happen

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.