When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.