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.

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

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

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

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

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.