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I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

It took me three weeks to write the 'Rhapsody in Blue.' I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.