What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

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

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.