He took my music, but he gave me my name.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

People remain glued in worldly interactions and that is their mistake. It is because they have become glued, they have to suffer the beating from the world.

Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.

THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

Schools are for training people how to listen to other people.

TV can be an acronym for television or transvestite. I prefer using it to describe the the latter. The former is strange and undignified.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

Grow deep roots to harvest rich fruit! When your roots run deep, you cannot help but bear the fruit of the Spirit.