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.

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.

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.

I admire Eddie Van Halen and Steve Lukather, but they might blow me away quite easily if we were to jam together.

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

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more.

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers.