Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

Songwriting's a weird game.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

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

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.