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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

I used to be a great blues singer.

My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

Both my grandfathers and my mother's brother were musicians.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it.

My influences were the riff-based blues coming from Chicago in the Fifties - Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Billy Boy Arnold records.

When I began my career, I was constantly referred to as the kid who could play the blues.