Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

I liked roaming around by myself.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Create your own heaven on earth by utilising the power of your heart to bring your true desire into your reality.

In order to have different things we must become someone different.

John Legend is a cool guy. He likes to chill, is easy to talk to and hang out with. He's also inspiring on a musical level.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

I've been going to the same grocery store for 13 years, and all of a sudden one day everybody was like, 'Oh, my God.