Ethics Are More Important Than Laws.

There's The Tradition In Jazz Of Having The “battle Of The Bands” And You Do Not Want To Get Your Head Cut When You're Playing.

Everything Comes Out In Blues Music: Joy, Pain, Struggle. Blues Is Affirmation With Absolute Elegance. It's About A Man And A Woman. So The Pain And The Struggle In The Blues Is That Universal Pain That Comes From Having Your Heart Broken. Most Blues Songs Are Not About Social Statements.

I Travel Up And Down The Country And I've Been All Around The Middle Of America For Many Years. Middle America Is Not One Big Mass Of People With A Proverbial Beer In Its Hand, Keeping The Country Down. That Is Not My Experience Of It And I Don't Labor Under That Misconception. And We Have A Long Tradition Of Coming Together Through Music In Our Country.

Don't Bullshit' Just Play.

What I Really Have In My Head, My Imagination, My Understanding Of Music, I Never Really Get That Out.