When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don't question you, you're in a dangerous place.

I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his costume for his part. I don't really feel that part until I'm into whatever I'm going to wear.

Lawdy Mama, those Friday nights when Suzy wore her dresses down tight.

I've watched other people singing, I've become a much better singer. I've become a singer that plays the piano instead of a piano player that sings.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Laughing like children, living like lovers, rolling like thunder, under the covers, and I guess that's why they call it the blues.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.