I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

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

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.