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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music, all that sort of thing.

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 like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I started singing on the radio in Los Angeles. I sang blues, but I would tend toward country blues.

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

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.