My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say, or play. It was hard-core, more than anything I had ever heard. After a few listenings I realized that, on some level, I had found the master, and that following this man's example would be my life's work.

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.