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

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

I don't know if people in New York recognize me or not. I'm not really conscious of it. If somebody stops me, then I suddenly realize that people are looking at me, but other times they may be doing it and I don't even know because I'm engrossed in something else.

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

What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.