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

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

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

It's very dependent on your state of mind. And your emotional state as well. And a lot of it comes pouring out, you don't really have that much control with it.

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.

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.