A contract is an ask game, and if it asks for an hour, and I submit to an hour, then it's an hour. When I look at a contract, I look at the obligation - where, when, how long, the compensation. If I agree to it, that's the way it is. I have an obligation. They have an obligation.

I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.