Shame is the shadow of love.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

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.

I really don't pay too much attention; I don't go out of my way to read any interviews.

I have learnt through doing interviews throughout my life that the way that somebody can write about something can change entirely how it was meant, or what actually happened.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.