We live in the digital age and, unfortunately, it’s degrading our music, not improving it It’s not that digital is bad or inferior, it’s that the way it’s being used isn’t doing justice to the art. The MP3 only has 5 percent of the data present in the original recording. … The convenience of the digital age has forced people to choose between quality and convenience, but they shouldn’t have to make that choice.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.

It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.

Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere.