When I grew up, I had influences as diverse as Keith Richards, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix.
You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
I was a kid that grew up listening to The Beatles and The Stones and Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, and I wanted all of that in there. But at the same time, a large part of my playing is Tony Iommi and Billy Gibbons. I'm just a sum total of all of the guitar players that I think were really cool.
The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Phil Spector. Those were my idols.
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.
John Mayer will be around forever, like the Eagles and Eric Clapton.
I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.
Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll is alive and well. It kind of just needs to be cultivated a little bit.
I grew up on oldies like the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin and The Who.
Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.
I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.
I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
We're never gonna see bands like Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath again. It's over.
Ringo is incredible. He's the greatest. Simon Kirke is great as well, so is Ian Paice. All of these British drummers from the '60s are great. They were big influences on me.
Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.
When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.
I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.
The thing about Led Zeppelin was that it was always four musicians at the top of their game, but they could play like a band.
I never wanted to be Keith Richards or Jimmy Page.
