The blues was so big in the late '60s that it kinda wore itself out, and people weren't diggin' the blues as much.

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.

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

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

Today is the most important day to start a new beginning. It will open the door of opportunity and reveal the holding.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

Every end is the beginning of something else.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

It looked like Roy Rogers rode through on Trigger, and Trigger kicked the guy in the face.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.