You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

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.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

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.

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.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.