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

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

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

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

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.

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