I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

A million dollars? For a cow?

Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Make decisions from the strong part of you, not the weak.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Emo is over, you can all go home now

Sometimes love needs a rest from caring, and so bears for an intolerable few hours the guilt of not caring.

Those who doubt most, and yet strive to overcome their doubts, turn out to be some of Christ's strongest disciples.