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.

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

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

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 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.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.