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Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues or aren't interested in blues.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

The blues brings you back into the fold. The blues isn't about the blues, it's about we have all had the blues and we are all in this together.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.