I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Nowadays music is as disposable as a McDonald's wrapper.

I've never stuck around long enough to know if anyone would miss me. That's rock 'n' roll, though. Here today, gone tomorrow.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one....

Young people feel things so deeply, don't they?' she said quietly, almost to herself. 'Everything's happening for the first time.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there.

Christianity is not a legal relationship; it is a love relationship.

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

You should never have to tell someone you are a Christian. They should know by the way you treat them.