I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed.

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.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.