And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you.

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.