John Lee Hooker

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.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I love the fans, I love the game of baseball, and I love Cincinnati baseball.