The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my fun, I've got to have my fling, Some folks say I'm blowing my top Talk don't mean a thing.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

Maybe if I knew music, I couldn't do what I am doing.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

I’ve been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

Put your faith in God and confidence in yourself.

Music gives strength to the spirit.

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

I've got a lot of folks who want to get rid of TSA, a bunch of them.

There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.

It must be observed that fishing with any living bait is to be condemned for the same reason as fishing with a worm: in all such instances we torture two animals at once for our amusement.

The next best thing to a winning day at the track is a losing day.