There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.
All my life I've been prejudiced against wealthy people.
There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.
When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.
To me, flying free is doing what I want to do, even if it's different from what everybody expects me to do. I'm flying free when I win the battle between me and the people who thought I should go down this road and I find my own road.
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.
Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.
I still feel like there are a lot of things in me that people haven't seen. My soul hasn't been bared yet.
I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.