But I'm not here just to make records and money. I'm here to say something and to touch other people, sometimes in a cry of desperation: "Do you know this feeling?

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

You don't start to play your guitar thinking you're going to be running an organisation that will maybe generate millions.

[John] Belushi was an extreme experience even by my standards.

Retire? I can't spell the word. I'd play in a wheelchair.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.