Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

The public library is the great equaliser.

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.'

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.