We might be tired, but the fifth and final day of Bluesfest offers too much to be excited about for that to matter.

Mavis Staples dominates day four of the Bluesfest.

It begins!

"We just kind of combine it. It’s like a celebration and all of the music comes out, all these musicians go nuts and then I sit there with a microphone and say what I believe.”

“Early on it was hard to get people to actually pay attention to the songs themselves; they’d often get a bit lost in the story of the whole thing, you know, our ages and stuff."

“In a lot of ways I’m having my cake and eating it right now because I’ve got all the advantages of being in a band but at the same time I retain the sense of control that comes from being a solo artist…"

"I’d watched my dad play music to me for a few years growing up but he never let me touch his guitar, but then, at age 12, my parents divorced and I don’t know why but he left his guitar behind when he left home."

“There’s some incredible computer animation out there – it blows me away when I see it – and I’m just very interested in working with that medium as well, with the music and songwriting and what the songs mean and how it locates and relates to the earth, and the earth as Mother."

“One day, coming home from college, I found some telephone wires along the side of the road, and some tubes. I picked them up, and when I got home hooked up the tubes to the wires, and it made a hum."

“With the new album, it’s a bit more… I don’t want to say complex but we have different parts."

“Australia won’t be the same when The Blind Boys are back in town.”

“The only frustration is that you want to be on all four stages at the same time, you wanna see all the acts who are oftentimes at the same time as you’re playing!"

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“Absolutely I had my punk rock phase – I see plenty of things to rebel against. At this point of my life, personally, I’m rebelling against being an arrested development adolescent – that’s worth rebelling against.”

“I think that we’ve never really aimed to play the songs like on the record – we’ve never really cared about that – so the songs naturally evolve on their own in lots of different ways.”

"The show is a variety show – we close the show with the James Brown JBs stuff, ‘cause that seems to be the most recognisable by the people, and we also do my own tune, House Party, which is very popular around the world."

"I’m in the middle of writing a new record and it’s goin’ great and there are quite a few new songs that I’m sure some will debut on a number of the festivals or our shows there in Australia."

“There was a lot of pretty stuff put on top of it – guitars and keyboards and back-up stuff – but the basis of it was supposed be kind of a roots reggae record which was ‘we’re changin’ the world’. That was the idea anyway."