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 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.

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.

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.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.

Money doesn't talk. It screams.

You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information you need is in the others.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.