"I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing."

"But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days."

"I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising."

"Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived."

"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."