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

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

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

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.