Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.

I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years.And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Elvis Presley and Puccini shall return.

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to swear allegiance to the queen. I'm just not a royalist. I think it's idiotic, a hereditary principle.