There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazz__that's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

If you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they're asleep.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

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.'

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.