My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Master the art of selfloveand you will never have to seekvalidationever again.

Hope is a happy spirit.

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

The important bit for an actor is the actual shooting of it, because the minute the shoot ends, it's got nothing to do with you anymore.

When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

As professional cricketers, we have to ensure that we are battle-ready all the time.

I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.