Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.

Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys. Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.

If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.