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

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.

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.

Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.

My love for you it sings, It cries My love for you it dreams, It wake’sMy love for you it gives, It takesMy love for you it lives, But never dies.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.

When everything is good, maybe I think it’s the time to do something else.

God has given us His Word to assure us of our relationship with Him so that we may walk as Christians with confidence, knowing that our salvation is in Him.

I really believe in completely being naive and having high hopes when meeting someone new. I can kind of re-do my stupidity or my naivete.

I'm not a predictable black liberal.

When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice.

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.