Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.

I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.

In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody.

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

Dupa ce iti omori demonii, daca ai curajul sa o faci, e musai sa te intorci pe acelasi drum.

Always think that there will be no one there for you, cause in a rainy day the percentage of people that will not be willing to help you 99.9 %.

To start speaking my language start reading what I read... start reading what I have written. Listen to what I have listened.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.

I always wanted to write as much as perform.

The goal of teaching is learning, not teaching.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Don't bother doing something unless you're radically different from the competition.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.