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

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

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

When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.

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

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

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.