"I used to play too with a boy who played a saxophone. We didn't play no blues, we'd play a lot of love songs - 'Stardust', 'Blue Moon', 'Out Cold Again', 'Sophisticated Lady', 'Stars Fell On Alabama', a lot of different stuff."

"The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?"

"When I started to recording, I gave the name of Honeyboy, but my people only knew me by Honey."

"I drive every day. I like to gamble."

"People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'"

"Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies."

"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."

"What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?"