I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

A bad rendition of you is better than a good rendition of somebody else.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

I see you watching me like a hawk. I don't mind about the things you talk. But if you touch me something's got to give. I live the life I love and I love the life I live.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.

The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

let your haters be your motivators

When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.

Philosophy defines our world. I see my life in terms of great words.

When you realise you are just as ridiculous & just as #special as everyone else, you love them all.

No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

The system shaves the dice on the side of those with money and power, and anyone who believes otherwise deserves anything that happens to him.

I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.