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.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

Love is friendship set to music.

I'm super into sneakers! I'm totally addicted. Just from playing ball all the time. I was always looking for the freshest kicks on the court.

I've always wanted to be a part of that experience of writing to an audience that is just starting to fall in love with books. When I felt that my writing for adults had become cemented, I decided to write a YA series.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.

It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.

My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel, who was my first real acting teacher. Joan was also good friends with my friend Susie Landau Finch, who had first encouraged me to consider acting, so that's how I began studying.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Effective interdependence can only be built on a foundation of true independence.

I went into radio in 1965 when I got a license for CJOR 600 AM. It was my second business.

I'm very touchy feely with my fandom, in part because they've never done me wrong or hurt me in any way. This is an awesome balance. I hope it stays that way forever.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field.

One way or another, we need to understand that broadband is essentially telephone service, and just as we got to telephone service in the United States to one hundred per cent, we need to do it for broadband.

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.