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.

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.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

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.

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