But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books.

Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.

America... where law and custom alike are based upon the dreams of spinsters...

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

All women deserve access to care that can save their lives.

You cannot sing African music in proper English

The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.