I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

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.

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

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 don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

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.