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

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

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

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.