I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues.

Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

The blues will always be because the blues are the roots of all American music.

I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.