Loose ladies on the road will drive you crazy, every no, becomes a maybe.

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.

I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?

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

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music.

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.