“I’m only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.”

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

With our love, we could save the world.

It’s all in the mind.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Heaven and hell is right now. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

You’ve got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven.

People always say I’m the Beatle who changed the most, but really that’s what I see life is about… you have to change.

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

This song ain’t black or white and as far as I know it don’t infringe on anyone’s copyright.

We don’t, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, ‘Where did you get your style from?’ I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That’s the best way I could explain it.

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.

Jimi Hendrix was the most exciting guitarist I’ve ever heard.

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.

If you hand me a guitar, I’ll play the blues. That’s the place I automatically go.

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

I do really believe that all guitarists have a different character that comes through, that’s a strong character, the stronger the person is.