I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

I drink alone. Yeah, with nobody else. You know when I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

If you don't start drinking, I'm gonna leave.

I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.