So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

There is no shame in ignorance and failing

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.

They must be cool but determined...he threatened instant death to any man who showed cowardice.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?

It's the privilege of a lifetime for me to work with the most innovative people on Earth.

An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.

If you want to do a film, steal a camera, steal raw stock, sneak into a lab and do it!

American music culture is black culture.