When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are.

I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

I'm self-taught. But I finally learned that they was having little shows or night dances or whatever you call them at little juke joints not far from where I lived, and I used to go there. They wouldn't let me play inside, but I could sit outside on the weekends, when it wasn't raining or something.

If you can't get your songs to people one way, you have to find another.

The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing.