Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

A sacred soul is a spiritual being.

A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.

You don't have a work brain and a home brain. You have a single brain, one you carry with you wherever you go. Whatever affects you in one place is fully capable of affecting you at the other.

I think the less individuality you portray... not individuality but like the more solidarity you have the better.

I think there's huge room for a personality who can create a following, and that personality can be a person or a company.

Money came my way but wasn't really in the plan, so I didn't know how to deal with it.