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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

I don't think there is much American music.

American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

In America, music is more tightly categorized.