Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

If it wasn't for the British musicians, a lot of us black musicians in America would still be catchin' the hell that we caught long before. So thanks to them, thanks to all you guys. You opened doors that I don't think would have been opened in my lifetime. When white America started paying attention to the blues - it started opening a lot of doors that had been closed to us.

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.