When you write you have to reside in the unknown for as long as possible.
Around midnight I heard them shout unfaithful one and I knew right then the axe was gonna fall. It's because of me.
I realized I was tired of singing about trees and flowers. I wanted to sing about real life. From then on, nobody could tell me anything was better than blues.
All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.
Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.
I cook Italian, Thai and Vietnamese, I've always liked to cook.
In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.
I think you just keep going. I've been that way, my whole life.
Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.
war is, in some not yet entirely defined sense, a self-replicating pattern of behavior, possessed of a dynamism not unlike that of living things.
Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.