It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

There was nobody at the time who was playing slide guitar like Johnny, and nobody, or no white guys at least, that was playing country blues like that on the acoustic guitar. And it was at that point that I realized what Johnny had to offer.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.