I want to play in a place people want to hear me.

The blues is the foundation, and it's got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock 'n' roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's getting out there more, thanks to all the good people at Alligator Records and at my management company.

In the blues, it just takes so long for us to get recognized.

Leave your ego, play the music, love the people.

I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

But my big thing was always the blues.

When I got to Chicago I had to find my way.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

Wake up call may be a disastrous failure, if it results in a life change, the failure is worth the suffering

You can't do what you want to, so just do what you have to.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

When you start out in a team, you have to get the teamwork going and then you get something back.

You drool when you sleep.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.