In my songs, I try to look through someone else's eyes, and I want to give the audience a feeling more than a message.

The truth is there was a golden era in music from 1962 to 1978 - after that it all went a bit tits up. I blame the fucking drum machine and the fucking shoulder pads of the 1980s.

Music's for grooving man, and music's not for puttin' yourself through bad changes, y'know? I mean, you don't have to go take anybody's shit, man, just to like music, y'know what I mean? You don't. So... so if you're getting' more shit than you deserve, you know what to do about it man. Y'know, it's just music. Music's... music's s'posed to be different than that.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.

When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention.