My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the next person is going to see it completely different. So even what it means to me is probably irrelevant. It's totally irrelevant. What matters is what it means to each person listening to it.

Hearing the blues changed my life.