“Well, I have an undergraduate degree, a couple of bachelor's degrees, from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.”

“To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.”