The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

I like turning on two radios at once. I like hearing things wrong… I get a lot of ideas by mishearing things.

You choke my days, I'll choke yours.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

When it's raining you can't find enough things to catch it in. When it's not you can stand out in the middle of the street in a dress and a funny hat and nothing's gonna make it rain. I go through periods - or spells - when I'm more receptive.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.