It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its protectors.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.