I don't know what happened. I just exploded. I'd never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can't sing like that in front of a rock band. You have to sing loud and move wild with all that in back of you. Now, I don't know how to perform any other way.

Life is too damn short and [screwed] up to go through it silently loving someone and never telling them how you feel. [Screw] the consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all... whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.

You can't stay in your home town and play because the two people will get tired of seeing you.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.

I think I think too much. That's why I drink!

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.