I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

I like playin' for an audience the best, though, I think.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

Oh, I love to play on the road. I really love it.

The best artists are gone now.

Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.

I think it will always be around it just takes one person to make people aware of the blues.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

Everybody was tellin' me that I had to do something different, and I kind of agreed that I did need to vary it a little bit. I still love some rock 'n' roll too.

There were a whole lot, I bought every blues record I could find, it wasn't just one or two people. My vocal influences were Ray Charles and Bobby Blue Bland.

I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house.

Little Walter I would've liked to have played with.

I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.

I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues.

The Progressive Blues Experiment, Johnny Winter... and Still Alive and Well is my favorite rock record.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.

T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.

I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers.

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

I never really got to know Jimi as a person.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

No matter your Knowledge Power Fame or Wealth Tommorrow is always a Mystery

In the Eighties, Japanese fashion designers brought a new type of creativity; they brought something Europe didn't have. There was a bit of a shock effect, but it probably helped the Europeans wake up to a new value.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

In Brazil, a poor man goes to jail when he steals. When a rich man steals, he becomes a minister.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.

We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Do not get angry because others question what you believe, be calm and loving, for anger is the root of a faulty belief.

My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

If you're afraid of inflation, I think - and if you can bring yourself to have a long horizon - and when I say long, I mean ten to 20 years, not the usual ten to 20 weeks - that locking up resources in the ground is a terrific idea.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

When guys do books or stories, all I like to see is the truth.

For the first time in 23 years I'm enjoying the process of supporting it, of going out and doing shows, and doing the interviews, and doing everything.

When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.