All of us '60s pop stars came from old cities which had a jazz club, a folk club, a coffee house, and an art school.
Rock and jazz came together in a very powerful way on 'Barabajagal.'
When I was a boy, I had a grand, big tape recorder, and I made late-night radio shows with glasses of water and funny voices. I just loved radio plays.
I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.
It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.
I get plastic nails done in the salon. When I was younger, they were stronger, but now I get my nails built up. Then I can dance over the strings. I say, 'Okay, I need four nails; I'm a guitarist.' Sometimes if I'm in a strange place, the girl says, 'Yeah, all the guys say that.'
When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very schooled in poetry, too. He'd studied the Beat poets, of course. I grew up in the British bohemian scene. Dylan grew up in the American bohemian scene. So I was very pleased to meet such a guy.
The similarity between my music and The Beatles' music is it has within it a very positive quality. It's woven with humor.
Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.
I was a virtuoso of all the folk-blues guitar styles by the time I reached 17.
In 1968, I bought a 114-foot yacht, built in 1946, and lived on the Greek islands for a while. We had an extraordinary time in it. Then I gave it to The Beatles.
My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.
