If I made records for my own pleasure, I would only record Charley Patton songs.

Don't follow leaders.

I gotta friend who spends his life, stabbing my picture with a bowie knife. Dreams of strangling me with a scarf, when my name comes up he pretends to barf.

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.