I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

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

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.

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

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.

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.