I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.

It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive

If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad.

See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that - but he's got to think differently in order to do it. He's got to play above what he knows - far above it. I've always told the musicians in my band to play what they know and then play above that. Because then anything can happen, and that's where great art and music happens.