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

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.