I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

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.

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.

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

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

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

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

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

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.