I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

A product name has to be specific. You know that Tasty Soup is tasty - that Hot Chips will burn off the roof of your mouth.

A state may launch a pre-emptive strike if it has very good reason for thinking that another state is preparing for war.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there.

Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute.