Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? You never heard of them making a record. You never heard of them in anybody else's band, and all of a sudden they're the biggest thing going. That to me, that's to me social media music. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it is what it is.

Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else.

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician.

My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration.

I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their bones in. Nobody can tell me that Taj Mahal is pure blues. Nobody can tell me that Mike Bloomfield was pure blues. It was a lot of other things going on as well.