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.

When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.

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

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it.

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 point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.