I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided...
Eric Clapton is my dream guitarist.
All the bands I've played with have had dynamic front men.
I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much.
I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison.
James Brown is the reason I play guitar.
The first thing is, jazz is one of the few things to let you know that there is a God and there is a creation.
If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.
I'm ready for some rock 'n' roll action.
I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.
I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.
The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.
A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it.
I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.
I've always been a true believer that if men had babies, nobody would be trying to tell them what they can and can't do with their bodies.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
