Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.