I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

What are we before love? But thoughts floating upon a sea. Searching for a shore to explore, to gaze into infinity.

I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put, sometimes- baby, its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.

Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.

Jim Cameron used to call me 'Special Ed.'

In spite of the poor economy, almost 70 percent of Americans occasionally splurge on luxury items -- like a blanket on a plane, or a peanut.

Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.

I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First Amendment, it protects everyone's faith.