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.

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

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

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

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.

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