I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

I liked roaming around by myself.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.

Screw the shops

It should seem that it is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician.

Attention. That's all girls want.

It could be, it might be... It is, A home run!

It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.

Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinion.

I still wonder if the United States realizes how much planning went into this. When we talk about "mindless terrorists," we are lying to ourselves.