I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

Just with the Ragtime feel. It's hip-hop. It's OutKast. It is what we've been doing for years. Some songs have a little more piano or whatever, but the whole project was a natural progression from a double CD. It was like, where do we go from here?

Europeans love American spirituals and folk songs. We also pick folks songs in Spanish that show the connections between cultures related to Spain.

This is very definitely an opera -- there's no spoken dialogue at all, but because of the use of folk songs, it's a very unique type of performance.