The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

I'm always in search of something, in search of losing myself to the music.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

I was looking for some way to put my music to some service on a nightly basis. You go into a town, you play a little music, you leave something behind. That idea connected us to the local community. It was a very simple idea, but it really resonated with me.