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

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

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

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

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 can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.