I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.

While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.

I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.

The States still has the best audiences by far.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

I've always been the first to admit that Jimi was a very big influence on my early stuff.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

Radio is commercial, isn't it. Its a business.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.

When you start believing youre something special then youre not going to be striving to move forward.

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!