Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

Play slow and perfect - that’s the way to becoming a virtuoso.

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Jeff Beck is compelled by his inner artistic drive to keep evolving the instrument. He'll use the whammy bar with the volume knob and the tone control all at the same time - creating harmonics that no human being should be able to hit.

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