When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

The best artists are gone now.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I think about legacy a lot, hopefully at the end of the day they say I was a good bluesman. That's all I want.

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.

When I was about 12, I knew I wanted to be a musician. The blues had so much emotion and so much feeling; if you don't have that, you're not going to be good at it.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

delays, closed doors are not setbacks but setups God uses to move you forward

...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.

Two or three years from now thirty won't look so senile.

There is nothing Clever about not being Happy

I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

Tell me that I misunderstood a joke, but don't tell me that my choice of cravat is wrong.

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

Sarah Palin's real quality is that she is her own best creation.

Nay, we must think men are not gods, Nor of them look for such observancy As fits the bridal.