I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

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.

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.

Don't let them tell us stories

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

Unless we dream the best dreams of which we are capable, the future will be poorer than it might be.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical intruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

I describe myself as an indoor cat, because I'm a computer guy and I always have been.

Knowledge is almost annoying.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

(Sometimes when) someone's directing for the first time, they're afraid to include everyone - they have to prove they're the director.

Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.