Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

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.

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

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.

Plot twist: everything goes exactly as planned.

Change the life is difficult but not impossible, Just we need to take a step forward and that is only the difficulty

Imperialism means raping other nations

I love to talk to people who love to talk. The warmth, the energy, the humanity.

My faith teaches that life is sacred. That's why I personally oppose the death penalty. But I take my oath of office seriously, and I'll enforce the death penalty... because it's the law.

The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

I've taken singing lessons since I was young, just to work on technique.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.