I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.

I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

I picked all the tunes before I went to Memphis, and the band was all set. Willie Mitchell is an arranger like I am, and he let me do what I had to do.

I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.

I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

I want to build a legacy at the WWE, but I definitely want to continue to grow the Bella Empire. I want it to go beyond the ring. I would love to be a motivational speaker.

I love acting - I love doing it. It's a lot of fun, but for the longest time, I wanted to become a firefighter. I still do want to become a firefighter.

The mysterious eludes all words of explanation, but it is more significant than all that can be explained. There is always something beyond where we have gone.

I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which is everything in this world.

I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.

Alaska and Montana are not in the south but they definitely form part of the crimson tide of red states where Republicans are dominant.

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet.

To me, mathematics, computer science, and the arts are insanely related. They're all creative expressions.

Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

I'm not someone who's particularly in touch with the way they feel. I've heard it said that you should be a 'human being' not a 'human doing', but I'm a human doing, very much so.

We already spend too few days in Congress working on meaningful legislation; we simply can't afford to waste more time on legislation that doesn't move the needle to improve the lives of everyday Americans.

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.

Tacos are the perfect food.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

A miracle... my biggest accomplishment is my marriage so far. Because it's hard, everyone knows it's hard.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.