“Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.”

“The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.”

“Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”

“Some friends gladly stay, some move away. Some come and go, but their affections grow. While some, I recall, are not friends at all.”

“I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The blues started off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart. The blues blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. The blues went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. The blues got mixed up with jazz and gospel and rock and roll.”

“Sometimes the fruit is sweet, and sometimes it is sour. It is always fruit, and we eat it. So it is with the days we are given. Some are sweet, and some are not.”