I'm a visual artist myself and always have been so it's very natural for me to be very concerned with presentation, whether it's artwork or onstage.

To think of myself as a role model is extremely flattering, but I could never accept that, because Im just learning like everybody else.

I think Ive got a pretty good sense of humor.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

I don't hold onto anything, because it's a waste of energy to do so, really. There's nothing that I can do about the way people want to write about me. I just try and concentrate on my work and do that as well as I can.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.