I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.