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

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

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.

Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.

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.