Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.