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

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.

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

But my big thing was always the blues.

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

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

Painted desert, ocean of colorsun's worshiper, moon's loverpicture of a coyote's voicesandbox of angels, another toy.

I Believe When People Go To Hell, They Relive Their Worst Life Experience, Over And Over Again.

Keep the first date brief, short, sweet and simple and they'll come back to you.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird crossroad and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self.

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

The circus doesn't stop. A federal appeals court has postponed the recall election. How stupid are we? Even our recalls get recalled.

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

Christianity is in no way a stoic faith. It fundamentally rejects the "stiff upper lip" school of thought.