I never use that word, retire.
I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I’ve been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that’s meant a life of one-nighters.
I don’t like anybody to be angry with me. I’d rather have friends.
I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was – and loved it all.
I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother’s aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.
As you get older, your fingers sometimes swell. But I’ve missed 18 days in 65 years. Sometimes guys will just take off; I’ve never done that. If I’m booked to play, I go and play.
Blues purists never cared for me. I don’t worry about it. I think if it this way: When I made ‘Three O’ Clock Blues,’ they were not there. The people out there made the tune. And blues purists just wrote about it. The people is who I’m trying to satisfy.
Even when you know you want to do something, know that it will be good for you, that you’ll enjoy [performing] when you’re doing it, the anxiety is telling you a different story. It’s a constant battle within yourself.
Kourtney has a new therapist and a new bf and I don’t really know which one is this problem
Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
There are always generic terms like ‘Americana’, but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
Sometimes I think, ‘To hell with acting,’ and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop, acting is much cooler.
I don’t see Johnny Depp as attractive!
You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.
At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.
Student debt is like HPV – if you go to college, you are most likely to get it, and it will follow you for the rest of your life.
[On relationship with Jimmy Page] We’re still good friends, we both enjoy a rather dark sense of humour that comes, I think, from being on the wrong side of the tracks for all those wild years.
If you ain’t trying to cheat a little, you ain’t likely to win much.
Attending an all-girls school has its advantages, there are no inhibitions. You can walk to school with your zit cream on and your hair in rollers and nobody cares.
If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?
I look like an angel, but I can play the bitch.
I’m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it.
