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.

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

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

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.

When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.