If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because I believe that something being officially released on a studio record gives it a certain authority that it doesn't quite have if it comes out on a live album or is just a part of your show, you know.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

Settle back is to settle without knowing.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.