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

Who told you I was a musician?

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

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.

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.

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.

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

There are no small churches, just small people.

We need to show that we know and understand and can reflect today's Britain. Today we don't.

How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.