Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it - how do you create something from nothing? Anyone who's creative understands that that's the magic, that's the alchemy.

It's a simple formula for me now, I don't play any song I don't want to play.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.