When you ain’t got no money, you got the blues.

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

Watch out strange cat people, little red roosters on the prowl. If you see my little red rooster, please drive him home.

I eat more chicken any man ever seen.

Ain't no better place than the US. This is a free enterprise system. You can get whatever you want in the US.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

To my beloved friends, there’s simply no life without you guys. Thanks for the advice and the love and the billion dinners and laughs. Without you all . . . I’d look for new friends and get them.

There are times when the evil seems so impenetrable, the wickedness so victorious, you don't even know how to hope. But then the good news bursts in, as impossible to deny as it is to believe.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body.

Wealth is not only what you have but it is also what you are.