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I love blues. My grandfather did 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.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

But my big thing was always the blues.

The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.