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

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.

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 weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

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?

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

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.