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.

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

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.

The future is always beginning now.

When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?

That's all the freedom we canhope for - the freedom to choose our prison. [...]

God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

Roger “Hurricane” Wilson is the real deal!