I know that for category purposes, people have to lump certain artists in with genre that they make their name or their bones in. Nobody can tell me ….

My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspir….

Maybe in my personal life, but as far as my career, I've been offered some humongous things in my career and didn't take them. I look back and think,….

Some of the best advice I was given was that me doing a bad version of me is better than me doing a good version of someone else..

I've worked with a lot of people and I like to play with people when it's fun, and people that I have fun with independent of music, do you know what….

I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that..

I'm a firm believer that you learn a hell of a lot more from your failures than you do from your successes..

For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. ….

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you..

Nowadays blues in particular has a wide, wide, wide, wide net of everything that's called blues. I think if somebody's coming to it in the last ten y….

At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is the latest greatest. I ….

Just think about it, be honest, how many groups have you heard of in the last five or six, seven, eight years that you never heard of playing live? Y….

At the school where I went you were able to check out instruments like you check out a library book, if your parents signed for you and vouched for y….

Nowadays it's hard to get somebody to invest the time - everybody wants to be famous rather than be a good musician..

When you are sitting in a room and somebody does something or says something and a thought comes, an idea or a melody - you have to just grab it whil….

I'm just a restless soul musically..

Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself..