The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

Like I said, basically I'm a rocker. That's about it. Things that I've done away from that-branches that I've gotten into off of that - are just other streams, other things that I can do.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.