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

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.

Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.

There's less pressure to look good as you get older.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.

People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.

Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive.

I just couldn't live with myself knowing I had just killed myself.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.

Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.

Be yourself. Unapologetically.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

I've never seen the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

When you give yourself you receive more than you give.

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.