I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

She was just another notch on my guitar.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.