I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

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.

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.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Birds have wings to fly in the sky

The prisoners of the cultures are mostly the women! House is the name of the prison!

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

Our union represents a breaking away...represents sharing a power, represent questioning, represents a new force...however long it takes, we are geared for a struggle.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

My wife ain't gonna make love to me if I got no money!

When you do a rewrite, it's really about serving the director's vision, and what the director needs to go into that script.

[On STDs] This be Nature’s way of recommending monogamy.

This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination.