My grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.

I said if you want to be Keith Richards, you've got to listen to Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Then I thought, "What did Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry listen to?" I said, "They listened to Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters." Well who'd they listen to? They listened to Robert Johnson. I said, "Ok, we'll start with that."

When people come to the show they think we are a legendary band because they hear us on Classic Rock radio all the time. It is psychological. That's okay - I'm down with that.

They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.

Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.