“I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's ...” — John Popper Quote

“I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live' and those comedians - that's really even what got me into music was The Blues Brothers.”

“A song like 'Once You Wake Up,' is about that realization... about finally wanting to live.”

“Some day we'll be a 35-year-old band, and then we'll be a 40-year-old band - I daresay that we will be a 50-year-old band. And at each step of those I really, sincerely hope that we become a band that was worth following for 50 years.”

“Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.”

“You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.”

“Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.”