A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

A poor man is a living dead one.

When its dark enough you can see the stars.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

We meet thus in kitsch with a reappropriation of the results of past struggles.

A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.