If every song is in the past tense, that's a drag, so you have to predict the future.

Some people have career plans, long-range career plans. I don't know anything about that. I'm no good at it.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.

It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... It was just a musical neighborhood. I think the neighborhood was such a good family type of vibe for me that I didn't even realize some of the people weren't my real family till later on in life.

I'm about the only person in my family that's made it to 24 without being married. That's the way it works where I'm from. Most people, if you find someone to marry in high school, you do that, and if you don't find that, then you find someone in college.

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

We found that our kids enjoy those simple adventures we take as a family. I'm driving, my wife's the copilot and we give one kid a choice of what they want to go do. We eat a lot of bad food and sleep in some interesting hotels.