I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
Very often with an American movie, the end is very happy and you just feel good when you go out. When you go to a French movie, it's kind of like, oh!, and you can't go out; you're stuck in your chair. It goes so deeply inside of the heart.
The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
I like music that expresses what I think.
The reason I make music is to make people feel something, anything.
The blues is so expressive - nostalgic but not sentimental, mournful but not pathetic, so humble and close to the earth. It's a nuance-filled thing.
When someone's really good at encapsulating human emotion and putting it out in a form that can reach a variety of people, that's going to have a big effect when he's no longer there.
Let their music skill speak for [itself]. If they are producing good tracks and are resonating with their fans, or even gaining new fans, then that's great.
