The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
I'm just honored that people still like us and people are still nice to me.
I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.
I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes.
I was interested in psychic things and in spiritualism even as a boy. I'd started doing yoga by the early 1970s.
Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.
I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.
I thought I'd use music to confront the problems that I faced, and it helped. I found a more healing mindset, and it did rejuvenate me.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's people's ability to access it.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.
I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.
