The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you kno…

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and…

Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached. Music survives everything, and like God, it…