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.

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

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.'

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.

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

Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.

I looked upon myself, in a sort of romantic and silly way, as like a laboratory.