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.

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

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

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

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

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

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