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I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I don't think I would get married again; I don't know if I'm a very good candidate because of all the touring I do.

If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

I used to be a great blues singer.

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.