The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss.

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.