ROBERT CRAY

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

She was just another notch on my guitar.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

She was just another notch on my guitar.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.