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.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

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.

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.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.

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.