It's hard to be free but when it works, it's worth it!

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-and I think you sort of switch on their brain, man, so that makes them say: 'Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.' Whoooooo! It's life. That's what rock and roll is for, turn that switch on, and man, it can all be.

I'm just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?