The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

What I want people to recognize is that we have to keep working together and take charge because we all have the same story.

I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.