I thought Eric Clapton was good. He still is. Not only is he good - he's rock's #1 guitarist, and he plays blues better than most of us.

A lot of times I say to myself, "I wished I could be worthy of all the compliments that people give me sometimes." I'm not inventing anything that's ….

The crowds treat me like my last name. When I go onstage people usually stand up, I never ask them to, but they do. They stand up and they don't know….

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person..

May I live forever. But may you live forever and a day..

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!.

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scal….

I never use that word, retire..

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep.….

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life..

Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too..

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions..

My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I was nine and a half, but if she had lived I probab….

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Film….

I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' till I got to be a man, but when….

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll..

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do….

We are here because there are things that need our help. Like the planet. Like each other. Like animals. The world is like a garden, and we are its p….

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing..

Playing guitar is like telling the truth..

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.