I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.

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.

Sound doesn't always have to be heard. Sound can also be created by how a pattern is set up on a surface- how it moves across the surface, how light reflects the surface [and] can generate a feeling. Sound can also be through feeling, through color, through texture.

You can't trust an artist that just makes good records.

I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.

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

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.