In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.

The total funding of SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the U.S. is 0.0003 percent of the tax monies spent on health and human services. And it's not even tax money. The SETI Institute's hunt for signals is funded by donations.

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

With the success of 'Black Privilege,' of course, the book publishers wanted me to come with another book immediately. They came with the check, but I don't do things for money.