Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.
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.