If you can play the blues, you can do anything.

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.

Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more, no more, no more, no more. Hit the road Jack, don'tcha come back no more.

You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.