The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.