All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

The only purpose of our lives consists in waking each other up and being there for each other.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seem the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.

The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Culture is that which falsifies.

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.