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

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.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I am doing work I enjoy and is fulfilling.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is gradually replacing traditional means.

I like musicals that look more like plays.

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.

I've worked in a call centre and as a nightclub waitress. I served champagne to Rihanna.

My poor cooking is legendary among my friends.

When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

How much has it been your experience that Americans follow what happens in the world?

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.

The men and women who serve this great nation, whether they are stationed in Iraq, Fort Riley, or the Korean Peninsula, or they serve us at home as our community first responders, serve because they believe in America.

Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just gotta remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to work with kids. I've been through the worst of high school. And I want to motivate people to live the best life that they can, because we're only here for one life.

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

But looking beautiful isnt I think as important as feeling beautiful.

When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice

I've said all along it's a humbling experience being at UCLA. Extremely proud, extremely blessed to be at an institution with all this tradition.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.