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I don’t do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn’t care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.

There’s so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That’s stupid. They aren’t songs about drugs; they’re about life.

The industry is a menace to artists.

Philosophy is the highest music.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It’s just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

I know for works for me – those wonderful sad love songs.