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.

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

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

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.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

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.

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.