Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

God bless the child that's got his own.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

I don't think I ever sing the same way twice. The blues is sort of a mixed-up thing. You just have to feel it. Anything I do sing is part of my life.

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.