It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.

I never really followed grunge.

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.