Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

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.

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

London's central role in the financial market would be undermined if wealthy foreigners did not want to come here.

If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.