Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times.

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.

I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.