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

I used to be a great blues singer.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.

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.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

The blues is like a planet. It's an enormous topic. You can't ignore the impact that it has had and continues to have on the whole musical culture. It's a tree that everyone is swinging from. Without it, I don't know where I would be. It's indelible and indispensable.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.