They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.

I always respected that B.B. sees music in a very open, free way.

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.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

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