I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The best artists are gone now.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

The best relationships are between two people who care more about each other's good than their own momentary pleasure.

I really like listening to music in my car.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

The real question is: How much truth can I stand?

It takes time for people to fall in love with you....but it’s inevitable

I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

There is enough energy in a single cubic meter of space to boil all the oceans in the world.