Without music, life would be a mistake.

How wonderful life is while you're in the world.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.

The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.