"I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out."

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel."

"Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music."

"Live music is better."

"I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music."

"I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been."

"I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks."