I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

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.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

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

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

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.

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