Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.
What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.
I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
All my family back to the 1700s were water Gypsies. My brothers and me, we were the first ones to be born on dry land. All the rest of them were born on barges in the canals.