Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

I do benefits. I do them all the time. There's so many people out there that needs help that I can't say I won't help them.

I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. I don't want to play it. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean licks.

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.

I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.