Music Quotes

God made Blues right after he made woman.

I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.

Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can’t be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that’s always good.

I want to put my soul into the music and still be who I am when it comes to an actual conversation.

I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good – he’s rock’s #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.

I think most people don’t know that I really write everything myself. No help. There’s nobody in the studio except for me and the engineer. A lot of people don’t think I’m a singer. They think I’m a rapper.

It’s not always easy to be transparent about your emotions and sometimes the music can get heavy.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Music is the most physically inspiring of all the arts.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That’s what made me try different things with my voice.