When you're 20, you can't imagine being 30. When you're 30, you can't imagine being 40. When you're 40, you can't imagine being 100.

The only new technology that interests me is when it sort of throws me back soundwise. And I can think, "Wow, that means I can go onstage and sound like Scotty Moore now and again!"

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

If you're cool, you don't know nothing about it. It just is, or you ain't.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

What's the big deal about still working? Retirement age is sixty-five, and that's at a normal job - and I ain't there yet.

I never plan anything, which is probably the difference between Mick and myself. Mick needs to know what he's gonna do tomorrow and I'm just happy to wake up to see who's hanging around. Mick's rock and I'm roll.