In each city there are different favorites. Whatever we do, we'll come off the stage and somebody will ask how come we didn't do 'Pearl Necklace.' At the next town, it's something else we didn't do that they wanted to hear.

I'm living proof that Hepatitis C can be contained and that ZZ Top cannot.

I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was talking about. Then, when they would come over to my house, I'd play them some blues. Their parents wouldn't let them come back. The blues were still called 'race records' back then.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

When I was younger, I'd listen to a song and take it literally. I'd think, Boy, what a drag. How horrible, he must be really bummin'.

I envy guys who can write funny.

Our future is ours to write.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.