I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I have trouble listening to people tell me about their dreams.

People have sort of a problem trying to see an end to a situation as being positive or romantic.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.