I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

Who told you I was a musician?

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."

6, 000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.

Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development.

I love trainwrecks on live TV.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

It's important that you work on things that you care about and do a good job and not be too worried about consequences. Don't be afraid to get involved.