Robert Cray

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

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.

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.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

I cannot cook to save my life. I'm really frighteningly useless, when you get down to it.