I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.