Robert Cray quotes:

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

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.

She was just another notch on my guitar.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

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.

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

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!

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

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

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

I was pretty shy, not too outgoing.

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.