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.

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

I am more of a rock guy than I am a blues guy. People get the idea that I am a dyed in the wool blues cat, but I rock out when I do my show you know that.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

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.

This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do.

I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.