As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one.

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me.

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.