Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

Hey bartender, hey man, look here. Give us one more, two more, three more glasses of beer.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas and he would play the blues.

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Rain storms are destructive and renewing, I want to turn my bad days into rain storms.

He was part of us and when he died, all the actions stopped dead and there was no one to do them just the way he did.

I am a woman on her way to eat cake.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can you tell if a desire is dharma.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Jazz musicians are so comfortable. The reason they can't do what we do is because they're so comfortable doin' what they do.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.