I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.

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.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

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