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

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

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

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.

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

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