A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.

Being hypnotized by content is a disease.

Memories sharpen the past

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness.

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].