My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.

It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.