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.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

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.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.

Jean Tigana has spent the entire first half inside Liam Brady's shorts.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

My wife is way funnier than I am. As much as I don't really feel I share a sense of humour with my family, I definitely share one with her - we find the same things funny.

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.

The bigger the trophy, the more trivial the contest.