It’s not a pretence. I will have to work to support the way we live.

Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just...

I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy...

There were times when I just took sex with my wife by force and thought that was my entitlement. I had absolutely no concern for other people at all, and I think that what happens...

Musically, Nathan is in the Top 3 as a bassist.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it’s all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was...

It’s been so long since I’ve been around something from somebody else that’s inspired me. For the last 20 years, it’s been up to me to inspire me.

You know, that’s it, there’s no turning back because what it’s made of is so fine. It’s like crystal, you know, it’s like the purest crystal.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

I know that when I was a full-blown, practicing alcoholic, everyone used to walk around me on eggshells,

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn’t a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that’ll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight....

She thought I was good.

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had...

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they’re far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they’re out of my league.

I feel wonderful because I see / The love light in your eyes. / And the wonder of it all / Is that you just don’t realize how much I love you.

One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly and Buddy Holly was a very very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you...

I like her music. I think it’s good. And well, I think she’s pretty … even though she’s older than my mom and dad. And gosh, my dad is like 30.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.

I don’t have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you’ve got thousands of chicks there.

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite...

It’s been very important throughout my career that I’ve met all the guys I’ve copied, because at each stage they’ve said, ”Don’t play like me, play like you.”

La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu’après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait bien de descendre dans les Caraïbes pour continuer sur le thème du reggae. Ils organisèrent un voyage en...

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn’t seem that difficult to me,...

I just think I’m OK, … The object of most of my work has been to raise it above my standard. And so, you know, I never think I’ll be as good as the people...

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn’t seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

I wanted to make a studio album without quite knowing what it was going to be,

He was sitting in his dressing room with his manager, … There was something about that scene. This is it. This is what B.B. does. I know that’s the way he wants it, but that’s...

I mean, it didn’t matter to me that there were people, it didn’t matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

It’s very hard, so I try and make it as engaging as it can be. But you have to face the fact that, no matter how good it is, you can only hold their attention...

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

It’s a humbling thing, playing for your kids, because they’re entertained for only so long. Then, they find something else they want to do,

Let’s make the best of the situation / Before I finally go insane. / Please don’t say we’ll never find a way / And tell me all my love’s in vain.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

I think it`s just my state of mind, probably, as much as anything else,

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music...

Nathan is probably the closest friend I have in the music world. He’s the most supportive and caring musician I’ve met.

I felt it was time to be a little charitable, in terms of friendships and healing up old wounds,

I’ve got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don’t know what it does to you, I don’t really...

Mine’s as good as his! Love, Pete.

When you came knocking on the door this morning I was quite happy playing the guitar, for fun, I mean and not practicing and I’ll always be that way.

Obviously, I am not going to say which one it is, but it is a guitar that has been around my house for years and I’ve picked it up in times of great stress like...

What gives him the right to do that? … I ask myself if musicians should conduct themselves like politicians. They are only musicians. Where do they get the right to talk like that?

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me...

For me, it’s about the music. I’m just the messenger, and I hope to do it as long as I live.

Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.

Thanks for waiting all these years, … We’re going to play every song we know.

will write about every aspect of his personal and musical odyssey, addressing everything that is known as well as much that is not.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on...