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The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.

Every time the guys were knocked out by my guitar playing and the girls were knocked out by the type of songs I did. That set us apart from the average blues band.

James Cotton is a real blues guy, and he played with Muddy Waters, and it surprised me that they would want me to make a record with them, that he called me to do this record. I'd never done anything like that before. But I love blues, so I was very happy.

I didn't know that I'd like it this much, coaching both boys and coming out all the time and seeing how excited they are to play hockey. It reminds you of when you were that age and you wanted to be out on the ice.