Edgar winter

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

When I was first starting out, you'd have to bang an old upright piano and stick a mike in it and it would always feed back and you could never turn it up loud enough to be heard and I would beat my...

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if...

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.