For me, jazz, R&B, jump swing, Chicago blues, country blues, early hillbilly music, and honky tonk all stem from the same source

The real badge of honour at work is not to work longer than anyone else, but to work smarter than anyone else.

Gift like genius I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

When I’m reaching an audience, I feel it.

Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

Talent will not always find its way but commitment will.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.