I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

I deal in emotions. It's the harmonic side that's important. That's the side I expected to be much further along on than I am now. That just means to say that I've got to keep at it.

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

I'm trying to photosynthesize like a plant. I'm off eating. Although I am making a lot of banana daiquiries in my room in the blender I've got, with lots of powdered vitamins in them. This tour I'm going to get some Afghani hangings and put them in my room, so that my hotel rooms look like mosques.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

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.