I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

You never knew what was going to happen in concert. It was a really exciting prospect to go onstage, and you can hear that in the live recordings ... wherever we were and whatever year it was, we always went onstage determined to do our best.