I may be drunk but at least I'm not insane.

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

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.

You know when you throw a party, you think people will show up and no one will like each other. It's like that with music - parts of your musical psyche have never met other parts. You wonder if you should get them together.

It was a hubba, hubba, ding dang, baby you are just everythang.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.