“Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don’t live it you don’t have it.”

Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

When you got your hand in the lion’s mouth, don’t do nothin’ til you get it out.

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.

Especially in recent years, the more and more we understand what we are doing, the more we have the science to tell us what we’re doing, the fact that we continue to do it without taking steps to address it strikes me as, among many other things, irreverent in an extreme.

Psychologically, you have to have confidence in yourself and this confidence should be based on fact.

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.

They thought they were Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall. In fact, they were more like Tom and Jerry