It was the British rockers that saved me. They brought me to a different generation altogether [in the 60th]. The Who and The Yardbirds and Georgie Fame and Van Morrison and all those people. The only person who ever did my songs in [ U.S] country was Bonnie Raitt.

So I'm in my 51st year of playin' mostly nightclubs. I do some concerts.

The idea was I'd never amount to anything in music, The theme there was that I was talented, but I wouldn't work hard enough to do anything with it.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days

I told [my daughter Amy] at an early age that she had a good ear. But I didn't influence her music much. She's pretty much developed her style on her own, and she's a talented songwriter.