A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.