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

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

I remember when I thought of singing as the bit that went between the guitar playing - something I couldn't wait to get out of the way. Singing was originally like a chore that I didn't really enjoy.

If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun.