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If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'

I think that the blues is in everything, so it's not possible to neglect it. You hear somebody go 'Ooh ooh oooh,' and that's the blues. You hear a rock n' roll song. That's the blues. Somebody playing a guitar solo? They're playing the blues.