Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The best artists are gone now.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

I've found the best treasure... You.

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

It is not the voice that commands the story it is the ear.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

No, no thought to the winnings. One loves because one loves.