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

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.

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

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

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.

I'm a compulsive musician, but it's also a bloody good way out of having to do anything else.