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

Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father will be the most daring in deceiving others.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

If the day gets really bad, I can always pull out fan mail. Who else gets mail where kids write to you and say, 'Dear Mr. Scieszka, we were supposed to write to our favorite author, but Roald Dahl is dead. So I'm writing to you.'

I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.

May todays success be the beginning of tomorrows achievements. Congratulations

I think, having done 'The Princess Diaries,' it was a fun experience, and it's cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It's always on. It's kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.

I could never take orders from anyone.

The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.

The real question that should be debated is not whether gay marriage should be allowed, but rather, is marriage really something we need anymore?

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

Being overly sensitive to rejection can become a destructive virus.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

The world is beset by many problems, but in my opinion, this hijacking of our brain's reward centers by electronic media is potentially one of the most destructive.

Leading from behind doesn't work.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

I don't think there is enough educational programming, but unfortunately, television is built around advertising and those shows don't get the big ratings.

In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language, they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound.

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.