The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

It's been up to me to inspire me.

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that.

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

You have to keep recycling yourself.

When we believe it, we will see it!

There is more to talking than just words.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

Never use money to measure wealth, son.

The cultural mix that's happened in the United States is wonderful! Funny enough, one of the most wonderful things about it is that there is no American race.

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.