What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players.... male and female.

I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. ...both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.

I had to learn chord shapes... I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

I've never stopped learning.

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

The Stones are a different kind of group. I realized that when I joined them. It's not really so much their musical ability, it's just they have a certain kind of style and attitude which is unique

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

Don't waste your time or time will waste you.

Your local dreams contain global elements

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

Enemies gifts are no gifts and do no good.

Aliens don't get stuck in air ducts. It's practically a well-known fact.