I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

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

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.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight of being a servant.

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.