It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.

I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

I've heard I've been called a bad boy, or difficult.

I've never been a bad boy.