I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

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 know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

I've never regretted anything I've ever done.