You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock.

Every song is like a painting.

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.'

I'd rather be a Jack-of-all-trades than master of one. If I became an icon, where my whole life was music, I would probably have become a vegetable. I wouldn't be able to have all these talents I have today and be an interesting 'character.'

Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.