"I wanted to be able to sing these songs and I wanted to be able to play them - to inhabit them entirely" (p. 27).

"The hair is part of job. It's my signature: a convenient shorthand for me and what I do, and, if you will, a logo for the business" (p. 38).

"For Jeff [Beck], who, more than anyone I knew, genuinely couldn't have given a toss about commercial success, releasing that song [Hi Ho Silver Lining] was like shooting the world's biggest albatross" (p. 91).

"America totally got the Jeff Beck Group. Audiences completely understood it - more quickly and more enthusiastically than people in Britain" (p. 99).

"I'm glad we didn't play Woodstock. Woodstock made quite a few people's reputations, but at the same time it rather set them in stone. It's hard to slip away from your image as "an act that appeared at Woodstock" (p. 107).

"I...