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.

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've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.