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

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

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.

I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

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