'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

I'm in a relationship, and I've been in one in a while, but all the people I've been with at various points - and I've had sequentially monogamous relationships my whole life - were all the right people at the right time.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.