I am a happy man. I've had a good life.

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.

If you like easygoing monogamous men stay away from billionaires.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.

Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air.

Let me tell you, if Hillary Clinton's president of the United States, nothing's going to happen. It's just going to be talk.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

I don't get no respect. I called Suicide Prevention. They tried to talk me into it.

I'm a literalist. I believe what people say. When they say it, I think they mean it.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me — I have no others.

I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting. High School Musical is what got me here today and I'm very grateful - but the fame part isn't so fun.