My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

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.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

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