I'm not a jazz singer..

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household..

I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music..

From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or….

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together..

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life..

I was a guitar player first off..

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers..

I love all kinds of music..

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena..

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, a….

The short answer is, yes, I think I have become a better singer..

My first love was the sound of guitar..

I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one..

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive ….

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility..

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning..

I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my v….

I'm easily distracted by other things in the world around me..

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be..

I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested..