There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

I started out playing ukulele when I was 5 or 6 years old.

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

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 love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression.

A genius is usually born on the way to relentless perfection with tireless persistence.

Atheism is the philosophical equivalent of a fish denying the existence of land because he lacks the means to experience it.

Writing is my life. Life is my hobby.

if the world is blaming you, if your not guiltythen you become the judge and do whats right even if it feels wrong, or people say its wrong

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.

When all else fails, and to stand firm seems impossible, stand on the wood of the Cross; it will float with you.

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.