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.

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.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.