Robert Cray

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

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 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 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.

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

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

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.