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

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

I never really followed grunge.

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

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.