Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Hate born from too many tears and too little Love

Change comes from a process of trials and wilderness experiences, problems and difficulties — it’s a process of transition from one quality level to another.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I love love. My middle name is Love. Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday. I want to have a family and children. I am a sucker for every romantic comedy that comes out.

Meditation takes place when you bring all your awareness to this moment.

My grandmother was this unbelievably smart, phenomenally cool woman and [soap operas] were just always on in her house. I just realized that I live in a soap opera, and it's awesome.

We have fun acting like this, acting like we are incredibly offended. Really, we are just bored to tears with everything.

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

The miraculous power of the healing we create through crisis can be as stunning as looking at the sun.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.