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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.

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

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

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

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

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

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.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.