Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.