When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.

There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.