The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

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.

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

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.

First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.

The only real progress in any activity is to love it more and more.

If you look at anything long enough, say just that wall in front of you - it will come out of that wall.

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

The more I've walked through tough times, the stronger I've become.

Will Smith is young, hes cool and my kids have his CDs.

I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.