Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself.

I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what I mean? Where you can just joke and kid around, because you can joke and kid around with somebody and when you get in the pressure cooker of the studio then you can it's just something.

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

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.

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.

Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten years or whatever, or even fifteen years, what their experience is what is called blues is different from mine. I have to expand my range of what's been called the blues. I think somebody who's new to it would have to go back and to see what is called blues now, where it came from. If that makes sense.