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

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.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

I don't go walking into things blind.

There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

I'm still terrified of flying. I really have to get drunk to fly. I've found that I've developed fears I never had before... fears of heights, claustrophobia... only in cities, though, never in the country.