In the media, a reviewer has his personal vision but it's passed along to a million readers or whatever. He might think that this particular song sounds like Jo Blow. Or like a Bo Diddley record that he heard six years ago. But the artist who made the record may never have even heard the Bo Diddley song. We all respond differently.

We're [with Robbie Robertson ] jazz musicians. The context may be rock 'n' roll but it's still jazz. It's jazz and that means improvization...you play a tune the way it feels and you play it differently every time. It can never be the same.

Memories, how they linger in the twilight and in the wee small hours sometimes just before dawn.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

A fantabulous night to make romance.

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