The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.

Respect all people as you do your people, and you would be a fine people.

The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

I always knew I wanted it to be illustrated.

I'm just a guy who rolls up his sleeves and goes to work!

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

If you want to become a better listener, however you need to learn to direct that energy and attention positively by concentrating on the person you're with.

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.