I spend a lot of time near water.

Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

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.

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.

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

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.