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.

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.

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.

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.

A man who has HEALTH has a thousand dreams, but a man without HEALTH has only one.

Don’t you trust me! What good is it if you don’t bloody trust me!

If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.

Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

I wanted to work with people from the world, with different minds and different visions.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.