Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

Music became a healer for me.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

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.

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.