It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

I liked roaming around by myself.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.

This business switching styles can't be done honestly by one man. As soon as he can play his instrument well, he can express himself, and all his life he has only one self.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

As the Weaver, so is the Thread

I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.

The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give.

Friendship is love without his wings!

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

We must lose what we think we know so that we can come to see what we least expect.

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.

Dogs may have kept us company on the hunt, but it was the cats who insisted we invent houses and discover fire.

One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.