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

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..

I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is mu….

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

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

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….

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..

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval..

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..

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as….

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….

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'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere..

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

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