“I got an attitude, that’s rude because I walked over Elvis’ grave in some blue suede shoes.”

When I need bread, I grab the toaster and stick niggas for they crumbs.

I’m an animal thug, I grew up eatin’ animal cookies

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn’t do more.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it’s a pretty honorable position to be in.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

I play with the nativity and tell mary she looks good in that color blue.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

You are my blue crayon, the one I never have enough of, the one I use to color my sky.