Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

The only time I hold my wife's hand tightly is when my wallet is in her other hand.

Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

These guys [Republicans] are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.