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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

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.

Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here – like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things – but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

Do I love the road? Honestly? No – but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.

The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

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