I never use that word, retire.
A day that I don't learn something new is a wasted day.
The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.
I don’t like to feel that I owe anything. I like to feel that I pay my own way, no free lunch.
The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know how much I appreciate it.
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probably wouldn't be trying to play guitar. She wanted me to be known, but as something else. Not a guitar player.