“I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful r...” — Ian Mcewan Quote

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.

I'm a good rhythm guitarist and that's it.

Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.

My mum didn't want me to really pursue music in the beginning, but I'm a classically trained guitarist because of her.

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.