You get as much out of rock & roll artistically as you put into it. There's nobody who can teach you. You're on your own and that's what I find so fascinating about it.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

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