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

To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

There were times I thought I was going to turn to the blues, but then I'd hear better blues players.

I put a limited time on the blues. I say, 'I allowed myself to be blue for four hours, and now I'm going to stop.'

You don't have to live the blues to play the blues.

I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.