That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Our souls are but leaves in a storm, and only the gods know where we will come to rest.

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

With a chuckle, Jack mumbled under his breath to Nick. 'It's like watching the preppy, well-bred versions of you and me trash-talking.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Convert life into truth.

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

A great hitter isn't born, he's made. He's made out of practice, fault correction, and confidence.