I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job..

I never really felt at home with that - the headbands, the roses, the feet, the peace sign, all that bollocks. That wasn't me at all; I felt like a f….

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958..

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something..

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral ….

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

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it..

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weir….

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

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..

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

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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