I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

The early years when I was starting, blues player, you wasn't always welcome in a lot of the other places. People usually have preconceived ideas about blues music. They always feel that it's depressing and that it's just something that a guy sit out on a stool, grab a guitar, and just start singing or mumbling or whatever.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

I look at an audience kind of like meeting my in-laws for the first time. You want to be yourself, but you still want to be somebody that they like. When I go on the stage each night, I try my best to outguess my audience.

You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.