All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.

When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

I think one of the secrets to modelling is the less you care and the more you're yourself, the more successful you are.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

I don't just want to focus on soccer, soccer, soccer.

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

The kind of energy I attract is very calm.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.

Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

If there is one Osama bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterwards.

Monday is the day of silence day of the whole white mung bean which is sacred to the moon.

You want to defend citizenship? Don't persecute or isolate those without papers. Just live like a citizen. That'd be a first-class way to be American.

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

A good boss is a person who can tolerate my complaints and still manage to say hello to me every day.

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it's not going to knock you out. It's the punches that you don't see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don't see it, you're out.

When you walk onto any set, it's usually primarily men. Which can be weird, especially when you're doing something emotionally challenging.