I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless you're in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

All over the world, the idea of creating an melange of international musics, it's a very healthy thing.

Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.