My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

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

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.