I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I lost my head for a little while.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.