T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The best artists are gone now.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

I... had guys on the set who didn't like me... they weren't interested in the cold character.

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Gratitude is a sacred space where you allow and know that a force greater than your ego is always at work and always available.

Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself.