I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

When I started workin` with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin` the blues.

Well, one of the best things is workin` with Muddy.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn`t write my name or hold my hand up.

No, I wasn`t doin` any heroin when I was with Muddy.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn`t just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

I just like the blues better than rock `n` roll.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

I`m not good enough to be playin` much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Everybody was tellin` me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock `n` roll too.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He`s a young guy.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

I never really got to know Jimi as a person.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

I like playin` for an audience the best, though, I think.

Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

Little Walter I would`ve liked to have played with.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.

The best artists are gone now.