During the pause while I was changing my string, the frenzied audience would often break into a slow handclap, inspiring Giorgio to dream up the nickname of "Slow hand" Clapton.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film - after that, they can go away and say that was great, and go back to their problems. I don't want to change the world with our music. There are no hidden messages in our songs, except for some of Brian's.

You and your oven are capable of great things, Remember, no two ovens are the same.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.