Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

When I saw all of the people I have known all these years, when we got together, it was scary because B.B King and I lived in the same place in Nevada.

All of these years that I have been singing, no one has done a documentary about my music as far as I'm concerned.

Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

But of course it's different now, the blues is no longer blues, it's green now.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

I thought the best thing you were supposed to do was find somebody and try to sound like them.

I sang on Church Street, every place that had a stage.

Be friendly like a flower

My country can never be taken away from me now

I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.

Writing is like pulling your hair out. You have nothing, and you can't think of anything, but you have to think of something.

I think everybody needs a little bit of Minnie in their wardrobe.

It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

Raven?' Yes?' What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out!

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.

Believe the best of everybody.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!