If you have to ask, you'll never know.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.

Like Ron Lorman's always sayin', "Na-na-na-na-na," you know what I mean? I don't need that in the studio.

There are no wrong notes.

John Lee Hooker is the funkiest man alive