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.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

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

All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

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

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.