Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.