I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

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

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

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.