I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
God bless the child that's got his own.
Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
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.
I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung.