If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

Total Enlightenment is 'Vision without Purpose'.

My history is my step to future, whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Originally I wanted to be a diplomat, and by attrition I started giving up that idea.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.