If you've got a good vibrato, you can get away with a lot.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.

The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

You should create a system or structure helping you to turn your dream into reality

I am old enough to enjoy a bit of nostalgia, but wise enough to know that there haven't been any "good ol' days" since Eden (the garden, not the prime minister).

This was like walking the line between dream and sleep. The night-sharp balance of being asleep enough to dream and awake enough to remember what he wanted.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

I don't care how much talent a team has - if the boys don't think tough, practice tough, and live tough, how they play tough on Saturday.

I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.