There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.

I'll tell you what does impress me: the fact that a lot of the cats who were our idols are still out there doing it. That impresses me very much.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

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!

The blues - there's no black and white - it's the truth.

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.