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.

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

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.

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