I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.