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 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.

Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.

God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.

I think the reason I have secrets is because there are a lot of things I haven't been able to let out, and I'm able to let them out through the screen and this medium.

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.

Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.

I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium.

In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there's going to be 30 of them. When I did 'Look Who's Talking,' people went: 'Oh but there's going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.' I can't worry about that. I can only do what I want to do.

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

I don't understand these politicians who want to be president and complain when they get a tough interview.

I did this thing with Trisha Yearwood, a song called 'The Price.' I had been sitting on it for a while, because I figured, you know, this really needs a good singer.

I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!

When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.

Happiness just doesn't happen. You have to force yourself.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow. That was a time where they were processing your hair, and it was a time when African-American women wanted that straight hair.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Love is a complicated emotion because you can learn something or hear something that goes against what you have come to know personally. It can be very challenging to what you believe.

The challenge of directing and interviewing helped me with confidence, and I learnt so much. If I hadn't had the brain hemorrhage, I might never have done it.