'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.