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

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.

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

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.

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.

Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?

When u practice something with conscious mind n then continue practicing the same even with sub-conscious mind, You Master it..

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

The fans don't know how much I love them so. It really can get to a hurting feeling inside due to how strong I love them all.

When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them

I have a special "ah, here I am again, I know exactly what they are going to have for breakfast" feeling when I get back into Roman Britain, which is very nice.