Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

As long as you want the belt, don’t run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.

I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

They please, are pleas'd, they give to get esteem Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.