I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

Football is a sad game.

Introspection is a devouring monster.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

I only eat organic. I love salads and believe food is our best medicine. My son is so brainwashed, he thinks McDonald's is the devil.

Sleep, to the homeless thou art home; the friendless find in thee a friend

The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for.

Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!

As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!