I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question.

A photo frame with many pictures is the best present ever for a long trip. I can almost feel all those moments..

When you are around people who have money, you realise money isn't that impressive, it's about your class, morals and how you conduct yourself.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Both worry and stress reek of arrogance.

I have loads of underwear, but only wear the bras because I never wear knickers.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.

Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row