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

I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.

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

I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

I've always liked acoustic blues. I liked Bob Dylan a lot.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

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

The blues echoes right through into soul, R&B and hip hop. It's part of the make-up of modern music. You can't turn your back on the blues.