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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

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Sometimes I just think that there are more things to be said to make the audience understand what I'm trying to do more. When I'm singing, I don't want you to just hear the melody. I want you to relive the story, because most of the songs have pretty good storytelling.

The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it.

I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people – like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.

When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

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If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

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