There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

When I first saw Jo, I said boom, that was it, because I'm a one-woman man.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

The last show we played, I was straight as a die. It did feel weird not to be hiding behind alcohol or dope, but being focused was... good.

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.

I love to get into a landscape and paint my horses.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.