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

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

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.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

Beware pride

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

Some will criticize me no matter what I do.

Most of the time we've been living in England and now we've bought an apartment in New York which we absolutely love.

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.

That which is measured improves. That which is measured and reported improves exponentially.

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

They are very good reasons why voice acting in games can be so terrible. Writers are in a great position to be able to bridge this gap.