It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

She wants to drive me crazy so that I’ll want her even more. She’s teasing me. That’s what women do. You ever heard of a man doing this? Course not.

Notorious Lucifer, King of Hell, claimed to know love again.

My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother's regret.

I'm being a dad and a good husband.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.

You will not break loose until you realize that you yourself forge the chains that bind you.

Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.

We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.