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Blues and jazz pulled me away from what was left of my family.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

I was exposed to jazz early on.

I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

I've always loved jazz.

I liked the more sophisticated urban style of blues like Ray Charles and B. B. King, Bobby Blue Bland, Lou Rawls; people like that with more of a tendency toward jazz.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

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