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.

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

The world has made everything else and still it can't make peace. And the reason it can't make peace is because of the evil, ignorance and stupidity. I have songs that explain these facts. And that's the blues.

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

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 has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.