scared to read my paper, can't look at TV.

It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time with the right stuff. There was this great big huge body of music, the blues, and this great big potential audience in the United States for this non-white music. The Butterfield Band was there to deliver it. People will accept something from somebody who looks more like them. It's a sad but true fact. We weren't playing it as well as our idols, Muddy [Waters] and Wolf.

Victims' assistance wanted to give me $10,000 to go talk to a shrink or psychiatrist about it, ... But I got to thinking about it and realized I got my therapy right here.

I'm probably the only guy in the world who's played with Lightning Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Hendrix, Duane Allman, B.B. King.

I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

Immediately eliminate what you don't need. Notices may need to be read, but you don't have to keep the paper. Jot the information on your family calendar and then toss the flyer.