“So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.” — Edgar Winter Quote

So yeah, I am definitely a blues man at heart.

I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry.

The great thing about the blues is that it's not about male or female.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

I'm not a big blues fan, but I don't know anyone who doesn't dig B.B. King.