Ninety-five percent of my audience was 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.

Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and physical health problems, and poorer educational outcomes.

Buying handmade is buying from someone who cares.

I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.

I think of a band like Animal Collective where they really follow their own sound and I think that's a really important thing to do. You can find an audience if you can find your voice.

Let us advance science to create a better world for all.

I'd worked with Mel Harris before, I love working with her, she's great.

Are we fighting too many wars? And I would say no. We're fighting one war. And it's a war against radical Islamic Jihad.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.

The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.

We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.

Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the female mind.

You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you.

You decide every moment of every day who you are and what you believe in. You get a second chance every second.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential.

The hairstyles of most Heavy Metal bands are pretty horrendous.

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

One of the bad things about being a filmmaker, about being me, is I can hardly read a book anymore because every time I read something, I have a poaching mentality, like, 'Oh, can this be a movie?'

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind!