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I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.
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If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
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I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.
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I don't like to tell people what format they can get things in, or say, "I'm only going to release this on vinyl and nothing else. You have to come to my world." I don't like to say that to people either. But, I do think there's a loss of romance.
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When you're 20 years old and you're making points with volume and dynamism, it's a fantastic thing to do.
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I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.
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Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.
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I don't think I've aged gracefully.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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I don't know how much more expressive you can get than being a rock and roll singer.
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You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.
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There's no point stepping up to the golden platform if you're going to repeat yourself.
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I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.
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I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.
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I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
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I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
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Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.
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I don't care what critics and other people think.
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There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
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I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.
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I'm not a flowerchild or anything like that... whatever it was.