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

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

George Jones is a national treasure and should be treated accordingly. A unique style so often emulated even inadvertently.

I don't have a problem with drugs, I have a problem with policemen.

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

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.