I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

Guitar is easy, all it takes is 5 fingers, 6 strings and 1 a**hole

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

I don't think rock n' roll songwriters should worry about art. I don't think it comes into it...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur.

I've never had my hair cut by anybody, I do it all myself.

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.