“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.”

“I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.”