I don't use the twang bar anymore. It's become too popular.

I feel like I own the stage.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.

I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits.

I never work out my leads. Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous. If someone says, 'That was good; play that again,' I'm not able to do it.

I was always stuck in a musical no man's land.

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline.

I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.

In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all.

What's the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.