Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.