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.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

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

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

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