Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

But my big thing was always the blues.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

All the thoughts that drive you are created in a spaceless and timeless medium. Connect to your innerself now!

There is a budding tomorrow in midnight.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

I have 20,000 girlfriends, all around the world.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.