There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.

I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

I don't do much recording anymore, but before I really stopped, I was glad to get five, five cent a record. That's why when I see people today and they complain about what they get, and I picked cotton for $2.50 a day.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

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.