While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
I was very influenced by Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, both of whom I had the pleasure of playing with and becoming friends with.
Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. . . . male and female.
The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed
I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played
I've never stopped learning.
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
I don't bat an eye at stuff like that. I've had my share of wins. If I worried about the games I should have won, it would probably drive me crazy. It was a fun game to pitch in.
I still have so much passion to perform. . . That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.
My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.
Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.