What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

Who told you I was a musician?

The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Lonesome. Lonesome. I know what it means. Here all by my lonesome, dreaming empty dreams. Weary. Weary at the close of day, wondering if tomorrow brings me joy or sorrow.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

The silence between the notes is the good part for me. I find that to be a very important part of music that is often lacking.

It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them " A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house."

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

Oh, life would be all right if we didn't have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

The secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.

If you stick to your work it will take care of you somehow.

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.

Nobody on the face of the earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.