I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.
If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.
After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.
Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
The Ramones are not an oldies group; they are not a glitter group. They don't play boogie music, and they don't play the blues.
As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.
But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.
As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.
My heroes were gospel blues players like Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, not whoever was number one.
Whenever I sing blues from the '50s or the kind of blues that you might have heard Eric Clapton or Duane Allman emulate, I often feel the similarity of some of the ragtime stuff I sang early on. A lot of the phrasing and the harmonization is the same.
Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.