If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

I just know that I'm a fan of all different kinds of genres. You're supposed to be free doing music, and that's how I feel.

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviors of rock 'n' roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don't know where the music comes from . . . I wouldn't even think about playing music if I was born in these times . . . I'd probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.