“I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.”
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There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.