Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.