Quotes

"I really don't feel like I've done s**t yet." When asked by Rolling Stone magazine to describe his greatest accomplishment as a guitarist (sometime around 2003).

I'm a musician, Dave's a rock star.

You'd have to be numb or dead not to get excited about 20,000 people screaming.

I just like songs. I don't mean to sound like a prick or nothin', but I've never really been that much of a fan of bands outside of Cream. And I don't really listen to anything nowadays. The last record I might've bought was Peter Gabriel's "So". With Cream, I was more a fan of their interaction live. You know, they were an example of "What's the difference between jazz and rock & roll? We just play louder." That's all. We get 12 notes. Do what the fuck you want with 'em, you know???

Eric Clapton is Eric Clapton. Nobody does Clapton better than him. Nobody does Hendrix [Jimi Hendrix] better than Hendrix. Music is an individual form of expression.