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.

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

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

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.