Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

I'm a millionaire, but I cut the grass. And each time I cut it, it's my grass. And that is satisfying.

Science and religion are both the same thing. They're there; they're life. If it's not science, it's not a fact.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

He never ever learned to read or write so well, but he could play his guitar like he was ringing a bell.

All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.