I would have loved to have been two people, but I was determined not to devote my entire life to my career..

Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. Wh….

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau..

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?.

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..

As long as there's something original going on, that's all that matters..

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

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to diff….

Yes, it's in my left ear. It's excruciating... I mean, it's the worst thing 'cause it's not... It never... It does go away - it's not true to say tha….

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

I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let….

I was interested in the electric guitar even before I knew the difference between electric and acoustic. The electric guitar seemed to be a totally f….

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 ….

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

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way ….

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar pe….

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best..

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

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start..

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, poundi….

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