"As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you."

"But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me."

"The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious."

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

"Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding."

"I've done every diet there is."

"Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly."

"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."