I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one.

Once you became associated with a children's show, you're finished.

In those days, between the ages of 12 and 18 you meant nothing. You were the extra place at the side table if someone came to dinner. You were of no interest to anyone.

The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.