I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

But my big thing was always the blues.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

Into the promise of happiness, synchronizing the rhythm of our lives to the turning of the leaves and the rise and fall of the tides.

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.

A great artist is never poor.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

When times are tough, vision is the first casualty. Before conditions can improve, it is the first thing we must recover.

In some ways I would like to be like Tyler, my char­ac­ter in the film.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.