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

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.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

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.

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.

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

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.