Taj Mahal

Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.