You don't have to look a certain way to have a hit record.

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

Pat Benatar might need a rock band, but I can just sit with a blues guitar for an hour and a half and do folk songs and great contemporary ballads, and not many people can pull that off.

I would like to inspire a lot of people to be active and give back.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.