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

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.

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

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

I don't care what critics and other people think.