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

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

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

Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

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

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