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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 in spirit and soul.

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.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel.

She firmly held the theory that everyone gets at least one very stupid superpower.

Live, let live, and help live