When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The best artists are gone now.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

Love is the strongest force in the world.

What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

My concentration and focus level tends to go down sometimes when I'm in a bad mood.

Sometimes, love was not enough.

That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.