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

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

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

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

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.