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.

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

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

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

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

She was just another notch on my guitar.