Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.

The blues is not a plaything like some people think they are.

Folks talk too fast, and don't understand what they talkin' about.

I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.

Real sign of intelligence isn't knoweldge, it's imagination

All sadness is a tantrum.

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

If you don't want to play clean football then go up into the stands

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Meditation is a refocusing on symbols. It's not emptiness. We are using symbols, doorways to step from one world to another, from darkness into light, from death to immortality.

I train the same way as I've always trained, even before I was champion. That's the difference, I train like a challenger.

The reason for great distress is the body. Without it, what distress could there be?