I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

I don't like English bands. They're too structured.

When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.

I have my own style, but it's different for each kind of music. There are certain little characteristic things every player has.

I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.