But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

It don't take me no three days to record no album.

My style is all to myself.

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.

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

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