Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

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

You can't change nature, son!""Change IS nature, dad, the part we can influence. And it all starts when we decide.

Return to God.

He was the kind of guy that made a woman want to rip his shirt open and watch the buttons scatter along with her inhibitions.

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

I'm a performer. I've just been one since I was a little girl. I used to pretend all the time.

Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.

Don't do anything to try to fit in.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.