It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.