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" I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten. "

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" Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months. "

" A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America. "

" This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you. "

" I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else. "

" I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it. "

" Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest. "

" I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know. "

" I'm not a big fan of lead vocalists, people who sing but don't play. I never wanted to be in a band where the guy who was up front just sang. I've always thought it better when one of the musicians sings, like Steve Winwood. "

" Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family. "

" From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation. "

" An obsession is where something will not leave your mind. "

" But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go. "

" Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. "

" But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not. "

" I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. "

" It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers. "

" Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening. "

" Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. "

" The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this. "

" The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. "

" In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself. "

" The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band. "

" It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically. "

" I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. "

" When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in. "

" I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. "

" I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions. "

" I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated. "

" I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up. "