If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

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

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

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.

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

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

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.