I haven't stopped smoking...anything

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

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

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

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

The public library is the great equaliser.

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