I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me.

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

'For me,' he explains his mammoth project, 'it is an obligation to know and learn to understand the various styles living within the guitar, to work with them …