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

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.