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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.

I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.

The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.