It's real difficult to pin down directions. I just want to do collaboration-tape stuff.

I just can't stand it [jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.